[sf-lug] Creating a Linux Lab

[Johan Martin]

The Debian education distribution is skolelinux. It includes ltsp too.


On 7/2/07, Johan Martin <catenarellc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the top post (from blackberry). I'll look at the two
> machines this evening and see if I can combine the RAM in the two.
>
> I could also drop them off at someone's location either tomorrow or
> Wednesday. Unfortunately, i'm going to be out of town from thursday
> until next week.
>
> An additional distribution to look at is the Debian education
> distribution. It has a great customized webmin interface for managing
> your users via ldap. When I initially created the lab in south Africa,
> ubuntu had a nicer interface but the Debian education distribution was
> easier to manage.
>
>
>
> On 7/2/07, Tom Haddon <tom at greenleaftech.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 12:06 -0700, Catenare LLC wrote:
> > > On 02 Jul 2007, at 11:18 AM, Jeff Bragg wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > "None of the Dell Gx150 machines that were donated meet these specs.
> > > >
> > > > According to Dell documentation, they can only accommodate 512 MB
> > > > of RAM.
> > > > Ref: http://tinyurl.com/24b2sr
> > > > That said, I've never tried putting more in these machines, so they
> > > > may
> > > > unofficially accept more.
> > > >
> > > > I do not know the status of other machines at the lab, but Kami might.
> > > >
> > > > Also, please note the although there is a spare PCI slot available,
> > > > these
> > > > machines are "small form factor" and require a half-height aka
> > > > low-profile PCI card."
> > > >
> > >
> > > I have 2 Dell PowerEdge 2300 Servers with 512MB of RAM each. They're
> > > Dual Processor Pentium 3 machines @ 600mhz. One has a 20/40gb DLT
> > > drive. I'm about to recycle them but would rather donate them if
> > > anyone is interested. 3Com Superstack II Dual Speed hub available too.
> > > I've actually used similar servers for a Linux lab setup in South
> > > Africa. I used a combination of Edubuntu and regular debian for my
> > > lab. Also used recycled machines and thin terminals (from Devon IT
> > > http://www.devonit.com) in the lab.
> > >
> > > Let me know if interested. Thanks.
> >
> > Hi Johan,
> >
> > Sounds like a very generous offer - thanks very much! Do you know if it
> > would be possible to increase the RAM on either of these machines
> > (presumably by borrowing from the other)? I think it sounds very
> > promising, but to be able to support the number of thin clients we're
> > expecting (10), we would probably need to get close to 1GB RAM per the
> > article's recommendations.
> >
> > Sounds like you have experience with this kind of thing specifically -
> > if you have other comments let us know.
> >
> > Cheers, Tom
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Johan N. Martin
> > > Catenare LLC
> > > 534 Pacific Ave
> > > San Francisco, CA. 94133
> > >
> > > Phone: (415) 834-9802
> > > Fax: (415) 294-4495
> > > http://www.catenare.com
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > Tom Haddon
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> >
> >
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