-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, IBM has installed approximately 300 infrastructure clusters at Oxfordshire schools in the UK. Each of these clusters has two IBM servers running Linux, including DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) and Heartbeat (http://linux-ha.org) to provide high-availability management for the provided services. IIRC, these services include: proxy caching server LDAP authentication using IBM's LDAP server running on DB2 DNS DHCP Samba file server services etc. In the end, each school has a highly-available, remotely manageable base infrastructure which is resilient to disk failure, server failure, software upgrades, hardware upgrades, other administrative events, etc. Of course, this is not as ambitious as making your school fully-Linux-run, but it will work for _any_ school, and is a modest and very doable step in the right direction. It is my understanding that because these services included "proxy caching", that they were considered an "internet enablement" project and were therefore subject to getting UK grant monies. It is my understanding that in the US, that such clusters might possibly qualify for Internet enablement grants from "erate" funding. I hope the above statements don't cause any SPAM filters to assume this is one of those Nigerian scams ;-). - -- Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh> "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQckhNkLhYXF6ZA4RAs6iAJsG7jHr+fkL2MAXnfKZgwFghynYSgCgkdx6 1XqQAhypFlXeC0jZbvZpFig= =GrCT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org