Alain Terriault <> scribbled on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:55 PM: How do you mean "big sophisticated setup"? I think CentOS is rather easy to setup, in fact CentOS was the OS of choice when I first started with linux. I'm not fishing for flaming or trolling, just curious on why you think like you do. 8-) > Hi Harry, > > Has much has I like Centos and RH for big sophisticated setup, it would > not be my first choice for your project. > > For 25 systems and if you want this done without spending to much time, > Clarkconnect would by my first choice for server side OS (#2 would be SME). > > For me CentOS x64 is #1 choice for enterprise (+500 users with Terabytes > of storage ) sever solution. > If you have little experience configuring a RH server, get ready to > spend lots of time getting everything going as nicely as Clarkconnect > does it. > > For the clients side, my favorite flavor of Linux is Ubuntu. > > cheers, > alain > > Harry Sukumar wrote: >> >> Hello All!!! >> >> I was wondering if you can help me little bit…. >> >> I am trying to help (voluntary service) a country side school >> (Aboriginal community) in Northern Queensland Australia setup lab >> infrastructure, it’s a very remote school and they don’t have enough funds >> to go commercial >> >> The school has only till grade 6 >> >> They have 25 machines that was bought out of the government grant but >> none of the machines come with windows >> >> I was asked by the school president to setup lab infrastructure >> currently they have Internet (Dynamic) with only two machines connected >> >> I have asked them to change the plan to Static IP address which I >> presume will be done some time this week >> >> I have decided to go Linux on all the machines including the server >> >> Could some one please cast some light on how I can carry on with this >> project, I am not sure where to start and I am fairly new to Linux and >> system administration world >> >> Currently what’s in my mind is to setup fedora on all desktop and >> CentOS5 as my server with following services configured >> >> Proxy-squid (all the traffic to pass through) >> >> Firewall >> >> Apache >> >> Squirrel mail >> >> DNS >> >> DHCP >> >> I am not sure where to start with this project >> >> Your help will be highly appreciated by the little kids who have never >> even touched a computer before in there life!!! >> >> -- >> >> Many Thanks >> >> Harry >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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