Adam Williams schrieb: > ok thanks for the clarification, I wasn't trying to sound like an ass in > my previous message. I just know at my employer I've had users who > think they know how to fix computers (but all they can do is break them) > do more harm then good, but since we went to roaming profiles/active > directory/etc a few years ago when I started steering the ship, I and > made them all regular users and only IT support staff are > administrators, that ended the problems. > > Xen is always good for saving power. It's similar to VMWare, you can > run multiple virtual computers on one PC at once. So you could create > yourself a Linux server on an already existing computer. Some of > VMware's products are free, like ESX server, too, so you might look into > that. Proxmox VE is IMHO very good virtualization product: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page It is based on Debian and KVM (kernel virtual machine). > Does each school have a firewall at their perimeter? Are they networked > together via a VPN, or wide area network? Is your bandwidth billed by > the gigabyte or unlimited, and how fast are the school's connections and > # of computers? You could put your file server in a DMZ on your > firewall and have all school computers update from it (but that may not > be a good idea depending on how much bandwidth and computers your > schools have and how much you are billed for bandwidth, or do it only at > schools with no server). But you could keep your current setup and just > have the remote servers grab the latest config and packages with ssh+rsync. Bigger setups (multiple branches) may also consider using packages. Just do something like: apt-get install wpkg-firefox wpkg-drivers-nx6325 And everything rolls out to your server... -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org |