| meway | Hello I need a good program for simple math that also covers algebra and fractions | 09:43 |
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| meway | any ideas? | 09:43 |
| mhall119 | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/AppGuides/kbruch | 12:01 |
| dgroos | Hi. | 17:07 |
| dgroos | alkisg: I just was telling someone on the list server about your setup. | 17:07 |
| dgroos | they wondered if you were using a 100 or gig switch? | 17:08 |
| dgroos | Also, I told them about you using regular PC's as the fat client servers in your classes and am about to tell them that you use xubuntu to 'slim them down'. True? | 17:09 |
| alkisg | False :) | 17:11 |
| alkisg | We use switches either with 1 or 2 gigabit ports, or full gigabit switches | 17:11 |
| dgroos | which part--about the xfce? | 17:11 |
| alkisg | And we use normal ubuntu installations | 17:11 |
| alkisg | We haven't tried xfce, but it shouldn't make a difference on the setup | 17:11 |
| alkisg | lubuntu would also work, for thinner fat clients | 17:11 |
| dgroos | I thought you said once that you used that to minimalize your image. | 17:12 |
| dgroos | OK, I | 17:12 |
| dgroos | I'll let him know. Thanks. | 17:12 |
| alkisg | Nope, I never seen xfce or lxde in a thin/fat client environment, but especially for fats, they should work out of the box | 17:12 |
| dgroos | OK, what are the specs on your classroom PC servers--you do have them, right ;) | 17:13 |
| alkisg | We have about 250 classroom labs with ltsp, which one of them do you want? :) | 17:14 |
| dgroos | Show off ;) This guy is looking at his options to replace their ailing servers… how about a range of low- adequate to high- adequate? | 17:16 |
| alkisg | For fat clients, any 5 year old pc with a bit of ram + disk will do | 17:17 |
| alkisg | The network speed is the greatest asset there | 17:17 |
| alkisg | For thin clients, you need cpu, ram, network, etc etc | 17:17 |
| dgroos | Great, thanks! | 17:18 |
| alkisg | So, if he has some money to spare, tell him to go for 3 gb ram + 2 pci-e gigabit nics | 17:20 |
| alkisg | (for fat server) | 17:21 |
| dgroos | Do you bind those gig ports together? I assume you have another port, perhaps a 100 meg port, to the WAN/Internet? | 17:25 |
| alkisg | We have cheap routers for wan/internet | 17:40 |
| alkisg | 2 mbps usually | 17:40 |
| alkisg | And yes, if one has 2 gigabit nics, he'd better bind them together | 17:40 |
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