Advice on getting a computer lab server

[Joseph Hartman]

Hello all,

I'm looking at purchasing a server for my school's multimedia lab to use
with Edubuntu and LTSP. What are the minimum specs I should look for in a
server that will power a lab with 35 P3 machines with 128MB RAM each? I
teach elementary and middle school and will need the machines to be able to
do all kinds of multimedia from editing movies to creating flash files to
streaming video from the Internet.

Will two dual-core xeon processors do it for me or do I need to go quad
core? (Does Ubuntu even support quad core processors at this time?)

How much RAM should I get and how much does Ubuntu support?

Should I just get 2 less powerful servers and split up the lab?

I'd prefer to have one server so I can have some control over the lab using
the thin client manager, but it isn't a huge deal. Thanks for any advice.
-joe
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