[TriLUG] Linux Server Recommendations

[Warren Myers]

Where I used to work, we had a dual p4 2.4Ghz box with 2G RAM handling our
Linux thin clients - never bogged down even with 15-20 simultaneous users
(and the clients were booting off CD with ~64-96M RAM)

WMM

On 4/28/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> douglass_davis at earthlink.net wrote:
> > I teach at St. Augustine's College, and we have windows in all of the
> > labs, however, I would like to get at least one Linux server that
> > students could use, with (a secure version of) VNC to log in to.
> > There would be at most around 10 users logged in at once.
> >
> > What would be your recommendation of a computer to get for this
> > purpose?  What are some must haves?
>
> I've literally picked old windows servers out of the trash and recycled
> them as Linux servers.  One in particular comes to mind where I had
> dozens of interactive users with X11 terminals logging in.
>
> The processors don't need to necessarily be fast.  It seems to help more
> to have multiple processors rather than one fast one.
>
> It's also very useful to have lots of RAM.
>
> Do you have a budget for this project?
>
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