[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

Mon Sep 12 17:32:19 UTC 2005

Remember that you don't need lots of DRAM or CPU to do that; you just 
need a halfway-decent hard disk.  A Pentium-133 with 32MB DRAM will 
suffice just fine as a NFS file server, assuming you're not running X11.

Thus, you now have *yet another* use for an old PC besides a LTSP 
terminal.  :-)

--TP

richard ingalls wrote:

>Yes I LOVE installing via NFS - so fast and easy! 
>HOWEVER, I'm at an organization now that is ALL
>Windows ALL the time!  So I have no place to do an NFS
>export unless I build another box just for that
>purpose (which I may do).  Since I keep getting errors
>on my CDs (which I'm sure is MY fault, but I burned
>several CDs and don't want to waste any more), I want
>to just use Ubuntu.
>
>--- Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:08, richard ingalls wrote:
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>>>I think I'm going to go for it with Ubuntu.  I
>>>      
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>>LOVE
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>>>the idea of only needing ONE CD to install from! 
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>>>
>>You do know that you really only have to burn the
>>first
>>CD or make a USB boot image for k12ltsp
>>(fedora/RH/centos)
>>don't you?  If you download the iso images to an
>>NFS exported directory all you have to do is boot
>>the
>>first CD with 'linux askmethod', pick NFS as the
>>install
>>method, and point it to your NFS location. 
>>
>>    
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>>>Lastly, squidguard and dansguardian REALLY need to
>>>work and work well (for the CIPA requirements). 
>>>      
>>>
>>In my
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>>>opinion this is reason enough to stay with Fedora
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>>(if
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>>>it won't work well in Ubuntu).  In Fedora,
>>>      
>>>
>>squidguard
>>    
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>>>JUST WORKS!  I love it!
>>>      
>>>
>>If someone is looking for a project, something that
>>would
>>be a real killer combination would be to make the
>>new SME
>>server (based on Centos4) work alongside k12ltsp for
>>network
>>server functions (squid/email/web/ftp, etc) and to
>>provide
>>home directories because it is so easy to install
>>and manage.
>>The tricky part would be getting everything to use
>>the
>>same network authentication method.
>>
>>-- 
>>   Les Mikesell
>>     les at futuresource.com
>>
>>
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