[K12OSN] off the shelf PC as Server

[Petre Scheie]

Yes.  I outfitted an office with just this configuration, using old castoff PCs as 
clients.  These were adults using Firefox primarily, some OOo, and the occasional other 
app.  It seemed to work fine.  I only had a 100Mb switch, and, as others have pointed 
out, it might have been nice to have gigabit between the server and the switch.  But we 
managed without it. If one is running games or graphically intensive stuff, gigabit may 
be more important.

Petre

Ray Garza wrote:
> For a small lab of 6 to 10 PC's (with no plans to expand beyond 10 PC's), 
> would an off the shelf PC work as a Server?
> 
> PC would have:
> 
> - Intel Pentium D
> - 2 gig ram
> - 160 gig SATA hd
> - DVD/CDR combo
> - buil-in nic, video, sound
> - add additional NIC
> - install K12LTSP 5.0
>