Will there be 35 concurrent users? Or less than that, yet 35 terminals....although not all concurrent? In any case....my suggestion:
Dual Xeon core duo processors (dual core or essentially 4 cores...I hear AMD opterons work well too) at least 4 gb RAM...more if it can be used VERY fast SCSI hard drives (mine are 15k RPM Seagates) gigabit ethernet from the server to switch Another idea.... two same or slighly lesser servers running in dhcp failover/load balancing mode.....thus the load splits evenly between the 2 servers. Make them identical and they will share the same DHCP range, but they will automagically hand off one and then the other thus the terminals will boot in a manner of A-B-A-B-A-B....etc. If one server fails....no biggie....the other will take over until it comes back online. What I run at my school.... Two Dual Xeon servers with 4gb RAM and fast SCSI HD's (15k rpm) with gigabit ethernet to gigabit switches. These servers are running in the dhcp failover/load balance mode I mentioned above. They sit on the same LAN as everything else and provide DHCP for the whole network. Runs great! David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
