[hblug] recycling older PCs

[Michael Adams]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:53:06 +1300
Daniel Faulknor wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Adams" <linux_mike at paradise.net.nz>
> To: "Hawke's Bay Linux User Group" <hblug at linux.net.nz>
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [hblug] recycling older PCs
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:32:45 +1300
> > Michael Adams wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:02:35 +1300
> >> chris morris wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > > Around 50% that use their computers
> >> > > regularly (even for emails) will look at adopting Vista in the
> >> > > first year if it is reccomended by the powers that be in
> >> > > SeniorNet.
> >> > Vista looks like its gonna be a bigger can of worms than XP was
> >when> > it was first launched.
> >> >
> >> >
> >http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/drm_in_tatters_f
> >irst_hddvd_rip.html> >
> >> >
> >http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suic
> >ide_note_in_hi.html> > > We could build the servers under Chris's
> >direction. I feel it> > > would give us credibility to have someone
> >in the industry in> > > charge of this aspect.
> >> > >
> >> > Sorry Michael - I've had no experience ( yet ) setting up thin
> >> > client servers
> >> > Others in the Lug may have had..
> >>
> >> I reckon that you'd be fine. We need a hardware spec to go from.
> >It's> just a quick box with two NIC's and no fancy graphics needed.
> >Once> you've got a hardware spec, any worries? The OS is just
> >software after> that.
> >>
> >
> > Looks like the k12 project server specs are a tad outta date.
> > http://k12linux.org/build.html
> >
> > ;)
> >
> 
> hehe Id say core2 duo, or xeon for the pcs
> 2gb ram (should do ok - 128mb per client)
> a few hdds in raid 5 (and a mobo that supports that)
> Gig lan cards.
> 

The beuty with raid 5 is it runs all in software on Linux. Forget raid
supporting hardware. Promise raid is raid 0 or 1 only.