[KLUG Members] Re: Linux in high schools.

[Brian Ritz]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> >>Pitch the hard drives and user LTSP,  these machines are perfect for
> >>that.  The 500Mb drives will just be slow.... until they crash.
> >That's the way I was leaning. I've not read anything about it yet except
> >to load up ltsp.org once. I was hoping that ltsp would work with these
> >machines cause I know a guy at my users group that has it running in his
> >house. I'm sure he's even done a presentation on it. ;-)
>
> Yea,  I've seen his network... pretty cool.  Great guy too.
Yeah I have seen the network as well, plus there is an awesome DSL line.
Now the guy on the other hand I would not call great (that is only in his
own mind). I would go more along the lines of a clutz with a tendency to
electricute himself.
>
> >>How much of a server do you think you can scratch together?
> >How much do I need? The computer show is in Lansing on Sunday!
>
> The more the merrier.  Multiple users = *RAM*.  I can easily support 4~5 users
> on my server at home, and one of those users is me (who habitually opens more
> applications than he really needs).  Specs: Dual PII-300, 256Mb RAM, Linksys
> 10/100 NIC, two IBM ServerRAID III controllers for drives, and an Adaptec 2920
> for the CD-ROMs, tape drives, and scanner...  LTSP servers get a big bang for
> the buck out of SMP,  you can always setup a uni-server and throw in the second
> processor if they decide to cough up a little bit of that cash they don't think
> they have.
I can concur with more memory. Been on the aforementioned network with
other users and each with a couple of applications open and no real
slowdown.