Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: WIMS, a web math educational software for Linux]

[Jan Hlavacek <jhlavacek@sf.edu>]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:00:39AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:48:33AM -0500, Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> > Debian Slink system.  I have VERY limited resources, our campus is all
> > Microsoft,  as far as I can tell, the only Linux machine on campus is my
> > desktop computer, a 120MHz pentium with 16MB of memory, and almost full
> > harddisk,  but WIMS run on that.  I will have to play with it some more
> 
> do the people with 'limited resources' have sufficient bandwidth that it
> would be useful if seul set up a publically available server that people
> from various schools could use?

I believe that could be very useful.  People can always use the main
server, but having a server in US dedicated to WIMS and publicly
available would be nice.  I think it would also take some load off the
main server at unice.  

I think that lot of cases of 'limited resources' are actually 'limited
Linux resources'.  That is certainly my case.  Our students actually
have fairly fast internet connection,  but I don't have the Linux
server, at least not a Linux server which would be powerful enough.
Although WIMS may actually be the final argument I need to convince our
administration that we should invest some money into one good strong
Linux server.  Right now I can have all the old junk I can find sitting
around here,  but all my attempts to get a hold of something more
powerful so far failed miserably.  

Maybe I will try to look into a "distributed" approach:  run apache on
one 486, ghostscript on another, gp/pari and gnuplot on third and
povray on fourth.  


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