[plug] Network Opinions

[Chris Watt]

Microsoft offer for free.  That is assuming you have a couple decades
up your sleeves to wait for them.

Can't afford downtime AT ALL.  The network heres replies on the VoIP
and Server being active.  There are businesses running out of here
that support the community centre.

What Distro would people recomend?  I'm enclined to go Debian Based
because it natively supports Apt-Get, etc. etc.

Cheers Guys (scuse my annoyingness)
~Chris







On 7/18/05, Mark B <mark at tophits.com.au> wrote:
> I wonder if microsoft have discount for charaties, i know they do for
> education, i suppose if they don't mind some down time it should all be ok,
> interesting project looking interested how it will go.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "simon" <simon at plumtek.com>
> To: <plug at plug.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Network Opinions
> 
> 
> Mark B (mark at tophits.com.au) wrote:
> >
> >     I may get alot of flame for this one, but out of experience I would
> > recommend placing either a Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 server in place to
> 
> Your reasoning is sound, except that he appears to be doing this for
> free/charity. Discounting his time to be valued at zero, a linux solution
> will
> be cheaper overall since the only cost to the client in this case is
> licensing.
> 
> Similar to yourself, I setup samba etc at home to service a handful of
> clients
> (which has now depleted to 1 Win XP box, the rest are linux). I also setup
> openldap etc for authentication. While it took me ages, and I hit several
> problems requiring considerable work/reading, if I had to do it again it
> would
> be much quicker.... the time after that, quicker again. At some point, Id be
> confident enough to set it up for a client for a reasonable fee for labour,
> which at that point would probably be on par with the labour costs for the
> equivalent windows solution.
> 
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