Re: 12 box network in small school
definitly. at freegeek.org we run 10+ machines sans disks by using a
diskless setup, and getting their x sessions from another box completely.
the server i belive is a dual ppro 180. and we've been using client
machines of 486 and pentiums on a 10Mb network.
so, i think you'll be fine with that machine. and if you've got a 100Mb
network, that will help things along quite a bit.
On Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:55 , joe golden whispered to the router:
!!Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with
!! pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor
!! 128 MB Ram
!! one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive
!! ethernet card
!! Sony RW drive
!! Can I use this as a *server* for a 12 machine linux network.
!!
!! Main workstation uses will be internet research and word processing.
I'm
!! sure this machine could function fine as a NFS file server and proxy
server
!! for web pages. Could it handle 12 simultaneous X sessions smoothly?
!! Administration would be much easier if One server was doing all
security and
!! file permission checking, etc.
!!
!! Thanks in advance,
!! Joe Golden
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