Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > b) An ethernet hub, 8 ports (I think 10Mbs is quite good > > enough). Cost? I think around $300-400, tops > > 178$cdn for a 3com Workgroup hub You can get cheap 8 port 10 base T hubs for $40 if you know where to look. (http://www.warehouse.com/datacomm/) -- see s

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread John C. Ellingboe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, making more > computing resources available, without encumbrances of commercial software. snip > 486 linux garbage can computer (in part to show what can be done). Should be fine for the job. > snip

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 4 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As you have surmised, this is entirely a doable task. I have, > (and I suspect any number of people on this list do too) a setup > similar to what you envisage; however, I am not sure of the cost of > the required hardware. I did the same here to

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, As you have surmised, this is entirely a doable task. I have, (and I suspect any number of people on this list do too) a setup similar to what you envisage; however, I am not sure of the cost of the required hardware. On the hardware side, you shall need a) a Linux box, wit

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, Not only of yours. Some have even made it a reality. See http://www.heise.de/ct/schan/ That is german project supported by C'T. It allows schools to connect to the internet using a specially prepared lin

School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-04 Thread adavis
It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools, making more computing resources available, without encumbrances of commercial software. Especially, perhaps, out here in some isolation, the Macintosh is widely advocated and used in schools. Networks are now planned, and while linux