[K12OSN] off the shelf PC as Server
Huck
dhuckaby at paasda.org
Thu Sep 28 21:11:09 UTC 2006
6-10 concurrent..you will want Gig-E...for anything more graphically
intense than Abiword ;)
Petre Scheie wrote:
> Yes. I outfitted an office with just this configuration, using old
> castoff PCs as clients. These were adults using Firefox primarily, some
> OOo, and the occasional other app. It seemed to work fine. I only had
> a 100Mb switch, and, as others have pointed out, it might have been nice
> to have gigabit between the server and the switch. But we managed
> without it. If one is running games or graphically intensive stuff,
> gigabit may be more important.
>
> Petre
>
> Ray Garza wrote:
>> For a small lab of 6 to 10 PC's (with no plans to expand beyond 10
>> PC's), would an off the shelf PC work as a Server?
>>
>> PC would have:
>>
>> - Intel Pentium D
>> - 2 gig ram
>> - 160 gig SATA hd
>> - DVD/CDR combo
>> - buil-in nic, video, sound
>> - add additional NIC
>> - install K12LTSP 5.0
>>
>
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