Re: [school-discuss] Re: Linux Terminal Server

[Derek Dresser <Derek.Dresser@gouldacademy.org>]

Quoting garry saddington <garry@joydiv.fsnet.co.uk>:

> On Sunday 04 April 2004 11:38 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:46:31AM -0500, Jason Yeoman 
> (jyeoman@bhncdsb.edu.on.ca) wrote:
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> > > Hi Emilio,
> > >
> > > We have been beta testing the K-12 Linux Terminal server project and
> it's
> > > very simple to setup.  The web site is http://www.k12ltsp.org/
> > >
> > > Once you download the CD's you simply install on a server (the more ram
> > > and higher processor speed the better).  It sounds like you need boot
> > > disks which are included with the server.  The website has support and
> > > documentation.
> >
> > Does anyone have current server recommendations?  The existing docs are
> > from the 2000 timeframe.  Or 1.5 Moore's epochs ago.  Which would argue
> > for about 1-2 GiB and 1.7 - 3.4 GHz on a 4-5 spindle RAID5 filesystem,
> > if my ballpark is accurate.
> >
> > I'm looking at a server for 10-30 clients (growing out the system).
> >

We have about 75 terminals on a Dual PIII 733Mhz with 2G RAM and fast scsi.  The
actual storage on this server is pretty small  ~18G because all our storage/home
directories are on another file server via NFS.  This server has been bomb proof
for about 3 years.  we generally have about 40 concurrent sessions.  I'd
definitely recommend dual processors.  Better to have 2 ok processors than one
fast one.  Of course 2 fast ones would be ideal! ;-)

-Derek

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Derek Dresser
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