[K12OSN] off the shelf PC as Server

[Huck]

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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