[Ryedale] Server Project

[Al Girling]

Paul Teasdale wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 Oct 2006 20:47, david richards wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> >
> > I have been offered an old PC which may be suitable for use as a test
> > server for the group, I'll know a bit more about it when I get it tomorrow
> > it is a P200 or something. Is anyone interested ?. 
> >
> That sounds fine as a test system. Debian would be a good distribution to try 
> on that in my opinion but I am open to other suggestions.
> 
> Perhaps we could set it up with chosen distro at one meeting and then get the 
> laptops along for subsequent meetings and follow a topic. So, for example, we 
> could get Samba up and running on the server with both a few Windows and 
> Linux laptops as clients. For another session we could get Apache/PHP/MySQL 
> up and running and use the laptops as clients once more.
> 
> I started a simple Linux mail server presentation a while ago now. If we can 
> get an actual Internet connection up and running in the Brooklyn Centre then 
> I would be happy to carry out the presentation and actually set it up on the 
> server for real.

Great stuff!

I've had a similar thing on hold for a long time now.  The machine I had
in mind needs more memory to make it useful, but a couple of boxes would
be great.  I should be able to dig out some small hard drives too so we
can play more.

> In short I'm interested so count me in.

Me too.

Toodle pip,

Al

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