> Hi Mitja, > >> The situation is like this. I migrated to Linux half a year ago becouse >> I was fed up with all the windows crap and now I'm a happy private user >> of Debian. > > I have been there . I know exactly what we are talking about. > >>But I have roots in DOS era so it is not the first time I'm >> facing command line. > > Good Start !! My guess is you will probably need 6 months and a couple of > books to go from beginner to intermediate. May I suggest 5 Literatures ? > > 1) Manpages, Info, /usr/share/doc ;-) > 2) http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/ had 3-4 PDFs as downloads each 5$ > which I believe was very reasonable, You could print that stuff. I was > about to include a link, but the side changed as he published a book > (which is also very good). > > Basically all the stuff is online readable for free if you dont mind > digging in the homepage (its right now not so obvious - start with "Linux > networking", you will find your way through) > > 3) Linux Quick fix Notebook (Peter Harrison) (based on Fedora) > 4) Moving to the Linux Business Desktop (Marcel Gagne) (based on Mandrake) > > 5) http://www.debian.org/doc/ has LOTS of info. I did print the admin > manual for myself but I have to warn you it is huge !!, you may not > require it, its all online. > > 3 and 4) are general books and the command usage is the same on debian, > well 80% > > That should smooth the start a bit the first 3 -6 months. > --- > > - About the webproxy: You wont necessarily need a webproxy, but if you get > billed for the internet usage by MB that might help you to keep the bill a > bit lower ;-) and it will seem faster for the clients if the homepage is > in the cache. > > The machines spec which you mentioned is obviously not as bad as I thought > first. > > If you want to support more users I suggest you make something like thin > clients (those can be 3-4 years old machines) which they originally wanted > to throw away somewhere. > > Those machines will be perfectly o.k to boot as thin client or from cd > (Knoppix) and wont even require a harddisk if the user doesnt want to save > any data and just use the internet. (That will keep the costs down too ;-) > > Sure wont be the fastest, buts thats another story, for internet access > that should be o.k. If the currency breaks, you start it up again within > minutes, almost no maintenance required. (except the proxy settings) > > I am not sure how much memory you will need to edit Videos but I would > guess it should be 1GB -2GB depending on the resolution & filesize you > will use, and the editing speed you can be satisfied with ;-). > > Does that help you in anyway as a first aid kit ? ;-) > Any other questions ? > > Best regards > > Nils Valentin > Tokyo /Japan > http://www.be-known-online.com > > >
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