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Dear All, Thank you very much to every one on the
list for the sincere suggestion and recommendations I have received amazing response from all;
I will try to recap a) Use CentOS for server infrastructure and fedora
8 on the workstations b) Use K12ltsp-terminal server and all the client
machines as thin clients c) Use CentOS as Server and Ubuntu as client OS d) Use RHEL on the server ( NO RHEL NO CENTOS) e) Use SME from Contribs.org for server and ubuntu
for clients f) Use Scientific Linux (binary compatibility with
RHEL) for Server g) Clarkconnect for server side and Ubuntu or FC
on client side h) Use IPcop as firewall Although ClarkConnect, SME are based on
RHEL, I have decided not to go on that path because of lack of large community behind
them + Vendor Lock-In With K12ltsp- sounds very nice but I don’t
have a large and grunty server I have to make the workstation as server, probably
a good option if I had a powerful server L With serious consideration I have
decided to go with suggestion a) Use CentOS for server infrastructure and
Fedora 8 on workstation and have old machine running IPCop as firewall I would like to take this opportunity to
thank you all, this mailing list is by far the best I have ever seen, I would
like to specially thank Ian Blackwell for offering more support and help; I will keep you updated on this project,
I am sure there will be a lot of question and problem that will raise and
conjure from this project Once again thank you all for the help
and effort -- Harry Sukumar From:
Harry Sukumar 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 |
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