Edubuntu Server

[Uwe Geercken]

Gavin,

  Iam very excited, as I got the go-ahead and have ordered the parts  
for the server for our local school.

I selected a simple graphics card, which I assume is enough. I checked  
the ubuntuusers.de hardware list, where it appeared to work properly.

I hope all arrives this week, so I can spend the weekend to put  
everything together and document it as I promised.

btw: is anybody interested to get a documentation/tutorial from A to  
Z? so screenprints, list of parts, setup, etc.

the other thing I thought about was to install the 64bit version of  
edubuntu on the server. would that be something you recommend to get  
additional performance out of the system. or - taking possible  
problems - would it be better to stay with 32 bit? would there be a  
limitation on the client side, if I have a 64 bit server running?

rgds,

uwe




Quoting Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:
>
>> actually I do not need a grafic card on the server but I though it
>> would be good to have a cheap basic one, just in case I would want to
>> work on the server or use an attached beamer or so.
>
> You definitely need _a_ graphic card, I just don't think you need an
> expensive one -- particularly not if it's going to require you to run a
> proprietary driver.  I imagine there may be a basic one built-in on the
> motherboard but perhaps not.
>
> The first review I found of that card suggested it was £300 which seems a
> lot.  On reflection, I can now see cards by that name for £30 so I'm not
> clear where that came from :-)
>
>> to your other point. can you recommend a brand of raid controllers
>> that will work fine? what about the disk. any basic recommendations
>> for it (brand/size)?
>
> These are worth a read:
>
> 	http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html
> 	http://linas.org/linux/raid.html
> 	http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID
> 	http://ashtech.net/~syntax/blog/archives/53-Data-Scrub-with-Linux-RAID-or-Die.html
>
> Personally, I mostly use linux's software raid (also called md).  Compared
> with a cheap RAID controller, I'd say you'd be better off with md.
> However, a good hardware RAID controller which
>
>  - has battery backed buffers (little RAM modules and a watch battery) on
>    it
>  - has proper monitoring tools on linux so it can tell you when a disk
>    fails
>
> is probably better.  This may not be cheap though.  I'm not up-to-date
> enough to recommend a controller I'm afraid.  There is some debate over
> whether hardware or software raid are more reliable.  I doubt performance
> will be an issue with 10 machines.
>
> 	http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008696.html
>
> Gavin
>
>
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