Server Suggestion Request

[francois]

Le samedi 28 juin 2008 à 14:04 -0700, operationsengineer1 at yahoo.com a
écrit :
> my son's school has computer lab with 15 p3s with 128mb ram.  they'd
> like to get a terminal server (running edubuntu) that could support
> their lab.  ideally, they'd like to get a server that would allow the
> terminals to all run flash or all run gcompris.
> 
> what kind of terminal server specs am i looking at?  would a quad core
> 2 GHz with 4mb of ram get it done?

Usualy, you must allow 512 Mb for the server itself plus 512 Mb per
group of 7-10 clients.

So, to run 15 client you'll need about 1,5 Gb and a quad core is more
than good.

But you have to take care about a gigabit network card and a switch with
a gigabit port.

The disk speed and reliability is also important : two SATA disks
configured in RAID 1 could be fine.

Regards,

François