Dear All,

Thank you very much to every one on the list for the sincere suggestion and recommendations

I have received amazing response from all; I will try to recap

a) Use CentOS for server infrastructure and fedora 8 on the workstations

b) Use K12ltsp-terminal server and all the client machines as thin clients

c) Use CentOS as Server and Ubuntu as client OS

d) Use RHEL on the server ( NO RHEL NO CENTOS)

e) Use SME from Contribs.org for server and ubuntu for clients

f) Use Scientific Linux (binary compatibility with RHEL) for Server

g) Clarkconnect for server side and Ubuntu or FC on client side

h) Use IPcop as firewall

Although ClarkConnect, SME are based on RHEL, I have decided not to go on that path because of lack of large community behind them + Vendor Lock-In

With K12ltsp- sounds very nice but I don't have a large and grunty server I have to make the workstation as server, probably a good option if I had a powerful server :-(

With serious consideration I have decided to go with suggestion a) Use CentOS for server infrastructure and Fedora 8 on workstation and have old machine running IPCop as firewall

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all, this mailing list is by far the best I have ever seen, I would like to specially thank Ian Blackwell for offering more support and help;

I will keep you updated on this project, I am sure there will be a lot of question and problem that will raise and conjure from this project

Once again thank you all for the help and effort

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Harry Sukumar

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From: Harry Sukumar Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 3:04 PM To: 'centos@centos.org' Subject: School Server Setup

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!!!

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Many Thanks

Harry