Hi all,
Our parish school has 24 computers in their computer room and maybe 20
computers in the teachers
classrooms most of which are networked together. Right
now they don't have any servers, and I my understanding
is they are not connected to the internet. From what my
5th grader tells me they have bought corel's wordperfect
family pac and have a bunch of games. They of course
have almost no money. I got into a discussion
with the computer teacher about the linux intranet I had
set up at work for our small business and he was very
interested in the possiblities of using Linux for servers
and maybe some other functions. He is really tired of
Windows crashing. What would be reasonable
requirements for the following machines:
A machine that would act as a firewall that they could
use to access the internet?
A mailserver,
A Printserver,
A fileserver - using samba to connect to windows
machines?
What would they need if they wanted to create their own
intranet where the older kids could create web pages
and other classes could view them?
Is there a free program that would allow them to logon
to a linux machine from the window machines so the
older kids that were interested could learn some basic
programing? and what hardware would you need to have
a whole class logged on working with the compiler so it
would not be too slow?
I know what it takes for 4 or 5 computers but I have no
idea what you need for something this big. I also don't
have any experience with firewalls and the internet,
although I have been trying to make time to play
with this at home. Sorry this is such a long post
Thanks
Linda Hanigan
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