Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] New Member! (Adrian Wells)

From: Edgehill E-Mail Service To: SuSe-Linux-UK-Schools Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] New Member! (Adrian Wells) Date: 09 February 2000 11:53

Re your P75:

Our old kit was Tiny, too. Yes, they have (in the past) fibbed about the processors - the AMD substitute was actually better than the Pentium spec, so no complaints there.

Don't bother trying to remove the heatsink - Tiny used to use heatsink-glue on their P5/AMD5 systems!

I'm pleased to hear that SuSE runs on these machines, as they will

Why thank you kindly stranger! The nice thing is the max bandwidth used is only 2.8% peak Rx & 1.25% peak Tx, both bandwidths usually sit below 0.1%! (no video conferencing yet) We use an EXTREME switch at one end and an Ovislink at the other end with servers sitting at each end. A SuSE server too once I get a few mins (hours?) It's like opening my boys' k'nex at Christmas all over again! :-) Thanks for the Tiny info - Trades description act? it does have "Intel inside" plastered all over the front. ---------- probably

be our first candidates for permanent Linux installation.

I envy you your 1Gig pipe.

Regards, Paul.

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From: adrian.wells To: Suse List Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] New Member! Date: 09 February 2000 11:51

Hi,

My name is Adrian Wells, I'm systems manager at Sidcot School.

I have designed and just installed phase one of a new Voice and Data network on one side of our campus, amongst other groovy stuff we have a 1Gig backbone. I recommended LINUX boxes for our networking/e-mail and proxy server. But my betters purchased an RM system comprising two NT PIII 500 servers (every thing ran just fine from one P166 Novel box before!) But we want to set up our own proxy server and run Unixy stuff available from the UNIs and I just want to play (if the truth be known)

By the way I'm not slagging NT or RM, so lets keep it clean! :-)

I have rooted out an old P75 Intel machine (LINUX tells me it's an AMD! is this a bug or has TINY been fibbing? I haven't removed the heatsink to see)

Installation was uneventful and took about an hour.

Service from SuSE so far has been very efficient.

Adrian

Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD.

Please reply to adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk admin@sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries