Edubuntu Feisty

[Steve Jackson]

I have done 3 small Edubuntu setups over the last year, two on Dapper and
one Edgy, and I agree with all that Gavin says, with the addition of a
gigabit nic for the server and a switch with at least one gigabit port to
serve a classroom. The terminals are happy with 100Mbit/sec. For smaller
setups I use servers with three 100Mbit nics, one for the 'internet' and two
for the terminals (5 terminals on each server nic), but that needs a bit of
tweaking to set up. 1Gb RAM seems to cope with 10 users. My servers use
software RAID1 (mirroring) and standard IDE drives.

Also, if your terminals are old, they will boot rather slowly on Edubuntu. I
have 233MHz Pentiums with 48Mb RAM as terminals, and these do better with
the older LTSP 4.2 setup. I am happy to say you can easily do a
'workstation' Edgy Edubuntu install on the server and then install
LTSP 4.2on that to get better startup times with these old terminals,
without having
to forgo local devices, though sound is dodgy. Hopefully you will have more
up-to-date terminals if your demo is important!

Steve
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