Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 16:14:08 +1100 From: K <hwg@stardreams.dyn.ml.org> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: School Server & PicoBSD Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981107161408.0092b600@Tasha.STARDreams.org> In-Reply-To: <3643D103.30CCF34B@aei.ca> References: <3.0.3.32.19981107113531.037fe7d0@Tasha.STARDreams.org>
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At 23:48 11/6/98 -0500, Malartre wrote: >They are lame and lazy. :-) Wasn't much better at my highschool either ;) It's somewhat better at college, but their Exchange server still goes up and down like the tide.. (with the tide? Heh. ;) >Computer in school is not a good idea, if you don't have competent >teachers and good application (since we use only netscape and >MS-Office..) This is true. I don't think being taught how to type in Word (or any other word processor) is funny. >I think I will start by asking one simple machine, maybe we need a mail >server, since they only do shitty internet for so-called "research". In >fact I play Java-Chess..! Really, I hate what we do with this $$$ >equipments. I want to install rc5-craking on all of the machines! (huh, >90 machines always online and idle!) Sneak it in. No, I did not just say that. :) (You can do it, but you're on your own should the admins find out you're hijacking CPU power..) >Ok, I resume: the Ethernet is NOT a problem since the hub do the job. >The uplink is the "bottleneck". >In the Netscape config, they use a proxie address. So the server is >acting has a proxie server. >I would need squid to speed up things (has a cache server). Yup. You'd need squid installed, and Netscape has to be informed to use the squid cache. >Tank you Jeroen and K, I think now the main job is convincing the admin >to let me take one computer for the fun of doing it! >My excuse will be a mail server for the school. >And I know they need a server for web page. Hum, learning apache to.. This is your chance, show them what a full-blown FreeBSD server can do. You don't need much actually, anything upwards of a 486DX2 with 16MB of RAM and around 1-2GB of hard disk space should be comfortable. Of course the more hardware you can lay your hands on, the better. sendmail is installed by default, you can easily pop Squid in there, apache... one thing about apache is that it's been MUCH easier to configure and specify exactly where I want my security to apply, and so much more powerful than other web servers I've used - I find editing .conf files much easier than Netscape FastTrack's (admittedly yes, Win32 :P) web browser configuration interface. It's not difficult. Good luck with your endeavor :) -- K "Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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