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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Alain Terriault wrote:> 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 the clients side, my favorite flavor of Linux is Ubuntu.For trees my favourite color is green, while for fire engines it is red. This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look that healthy and who has ever heard of a yellow fire engine? Your case up there looks a bit different: It is easy to say that those are your favourite flavors - but can you substantiate that somehow? Especially as ClarkConnect and SME are based (or at least were based) on CentOS but mostly lack a large community behind them -> Vendor Lock-In. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080611/8e18c29d/attachment-0002.sig>
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 at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080611/9a10fcf7/attachment-0002.bin>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us:> This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look that healthy > and who has ever heard of a yellow fire engine? >Not to pick nits, but in Columbus, OH, USA the fire trucks are (or were) all an awful shade of fluorescent yellow :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:> > For trees my favourite color is green, while for fire engines it is red. > > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look that healthy > and who has ever heard of a yellow fire engine? >Well, actually, there was an experiment out here in the wild woolly west of California where, for a year or so, new (?) fire engines were, in fact, painted yellow. It was a kind of dull yellow, not as bright as a school bus, but my family always used to joke about the school buses with sirens. I haven't seen any in a while, although there are some white ones, too. Aside from the obvious deficiency, yellow has this unusual quality of being invisible under certain types of low power street lamps.... I guess some people just don't see red that well? mhr
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Sorin at Gmail <sorin.srbu at gmail.com> wrote:> 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-) > >'ear, 'ear! I dabbled in Linux for nine years, including a six month semi-concerted effort to use SuSE/Novell Linux (for which I paid $40), none of which did it for me. CentOS, in one month, impressed me enough to spend almost $400 to upgrade my primary home desktop hardware so I could install CentOS and run a Windows VMWare guest on it, and I've never been more delighted with a small system with huge capabilities. It was (and is) easy to install and easy to manage, and the only real trouble I've had with the system has come from other, non-CentOS related areas (including all the things that I thought were CentOS problems...). Them's my $0.03 (inflation, y'know...). mhr