[K12OSN] Help to convince school

[daniel.hunt at iibbank.ie]

>> Henry, That's a mighty beast of a server for only 8 
>> clients?! I was thinking that that kind of spec would
>> suit a 50 client network! :s
>
>Well, the eight clients is a small lab and is really just a start.  The
plan
>is to move from that to having a few computers in each classroom so more
>like 30.  We'd also be looking at replacing the teacher/staff computer
>network with an LTSP system and this machine would help us in that
>transition.  You're right, however, using that machine for just eight
>clients might be overkill.

might be?? _MIGHT_ be? :)

True though, I haven't gotten to test this system in a large environment but
common sense tells me that that baby could turn a rocket on a penny and
still have enough room left to run KDE OOo and Mozilla for all 8 clients ;)



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