marktoulson Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 does anyone use a linux or simila server in a school or college if so what os are you using and what are you running on the server thanks
kmount Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I think you'll get a lot of responses to this thread but before I left my school we were running a mixture of Debian and Centos boxes serving web content mostly and providing isolated containers for development work.
powdarrmonkey Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Our base machines are all Xen, so a scary Redhat speciality, with Windows guests. Firewall is IPcop (CentOS variant) and VLE is CentOS 4. If I had my way they'd be Debian, but I'm biased because I maintain parts of it and we have a beautiful package manager called apt.
webman Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 (edited) The majority of our Linux servers are now standardised on Ubuntu. Long-term support, great package management, relatively light-weight, and it works. Other Linux boxes are self-contained distros - IPCop and OpenFiler which have their roots in RedHat and CentOS I believe. Ubuntu: Email (Zimbra), 2x Web servers (website + other apps), Misc fileserver for IT Support, Student Web & FTP server IPCop: Filtering proxy server OpenFiler: NAS for backups Edited April 22, 2009 by webman Summary of server uses
EduTech Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 We have a Dabian Distro which is for a student proxy, running dansguardian (with GUI) and We have a Linux Server running CentOS for a webserver. (No GUI)
dhicks Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 what os are you using and what are you running on the server We have 10 machines running CentOS providing Xen to run a bunch of assorted virtual machines - Windows Server 2003/2008 and Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10. The Ubuntu VMs are file servers, web servers, gateway, library server (Koha), Moodle. The Windows VMs are DC, print server and an applications server (anti-virus and Sibelius license server). We also have a separate server being a LTSP server for the prep school, a couple of two-workstation Userful Multiplier machines and I'm planning on a 6-workstation Edubuntu 8.04 NComputing machine. The two IT rooms, individual sixth form study rooms and admin staff have Windows XP workstations and there's a four-workstation Windows Server 2003 NComputing machine in the staffroom. Several pupils bring in their own PC / Mac laptops. -- David Hicks
Gatt Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 We currently have 2 Fedora boxes, a smoothie box and a Ubuntu/Zimbra box Though not for much longer
Marci Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 FreeBSD7.0 box running cPanel / WHM and some custom ffmpeg stuff for on the fly FLV encoding.
localzuk Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 We have 3 virtual servers running Ubuntu (various versions) to serve up our helpdesk (RT by BestPractical), Nagios, Cacti, OCS-NG, and our school website and intranet. We are currently in discussion over whether to move to a linux install for client machines, which would most likely be Edubuntu running via LTSP.
Hightower Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 Use FreeNAS for our NAS box - getting another 2 boxes to do this as well. Also use Ubuntu with a Squid install and our own custom whitelist filtering system for students.
CyberNerd Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 We have several linux servers, mostly for web and fileserving. Mythtv/ Mythweb for recording TV and Streaming TV shows - Ubuntu Webserver / database server (LAMP + Moodle) - Centos Student File server (samba) - RedHat Enterprise Shared File Server IT file server (samba) - RedHat Enterprise Student Email Server (zimbra) - Centos Virtual machine host and nagios server - Centos Terminal server (experimental LTSP) and TFTP server - Ubuntu email spam antivirus filter and relay (SpamAssassin) - Centos Proxy server - Smoothwall
Ric_ Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 Debian all the way for me - I run CUPS/PyKota for print serving and have a box running GLPI, OCS-NG and Nagios too. I won't count the XenServer boxes, Navaho MediaCats and Smoothwall UTM since they are heavily customised. 'm also playing with Solaris with a view to introducing Sun Rays (and the Sun Storage 7110s that I have run a customised version of Solaris). 1
james_yale Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 We run all our production stuff here on RedHat Enterprise, mainly v5 but have some older stuff that is still v4. Development boxes tend to run Debian and we've got some shiny new Sun X4540s which run Solaris 10. *nix boxes here far outnumber servers running Windows.
marktoulson Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 We have 10 machines running CentOS providing Xen to run a bunch of assorted virtual machines - Windows Server 2003/2008 and Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10. The Ubuntu VMs are file servers, web servers, gateway, library server (Koha), Moodle. The Windows VMs are DC, print server and an applications server (anti-virus and Sibelius license server). We also have a separate server being a LTSP server for the prep school, a couple of two-workstation Userful Multiplier machines and I'm planning on a 6-workstation Edubuntu 8.04 NComputing machine. The two IT rooms, individual sixth form study rooms and admin staff have Windows XP workstations and there's a four-workstation Windows Server 2003 NComputing machine in the staffroom. Several pupils bring in their own PC / Mac laptops. -- David Hicks do you use a gui on your centOS servers
dhicks Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 do you use a gui on your centOS servers Only for the couple that are running Windows VMs, and only so I can debug Windows startup issues via a VNC client on the machine. In daily use I simply connect to each server with SSH, and I have a monitoring script that connects via SSH every 10 minutes or so to get things like free disk space and so on. -- David Hicks
samba_man Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 We've got an Ubuntu LTS setup running Samba for the shared student Technology folders.
marktoulson Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 i no i may sound stuped but how do i add a user interfeace to the server
dhicks Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 i no i may sound stuped but how do i add a user interfeace to the server What is it, exactly, that you're trying to do with/on the server? Is this a server that you've set up yourself? Is it doing anything much important, or is it just sitting in a corner doing nothing much? You could (from tomorrow) simply install the latest version of Ubuntu on it, which you might find is better for ease-of-use. What distribution of Linux is on the server (different distributions will have different ways to install a GUI)? -- David Hicks
marktoulson Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 im just trying out differant linux servers jsut to see what there like and at the moment its running CentOS im currently useing virtual pc before i go and touch any hardware
powdarrmonkey Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 # yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment" 1
Batman Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 Firewall is IPcop (CentOS variant) If I had my way they'd be Debian Isn't IPCop Linux-From-Scratch? I always thought it was... With you on the Debian point.
powdarrmonkey Posted April 23, 2009 Posted April 23, 2009 Isn't IPCop Linux-From-Scratch? I always thought it was... With you on the Debian point. It could be, I haven't really looked that closely (it was there before I was).
ind1ekid Posted April 27, 2009 Posted April 27, 2009 Ive got a SunSPARC Netra T1 with Ubuntu on it running Squid. Currently handling the entire schools web requests. Wasnt too sure the hardware would be up to the task tbh, but its impressed me with how solid its been since implementation!
diggory Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Running a couple of Gentoo installs, but they do tend to break if I update after a while, so I'm gradually moving over to Debian - which is very stable over upgrades (3 servers running that). I noticed that when we had an RM Smartcache 2, it was using Red Hat - got Smoothwall now Also got a couple of Ubuntu machines for guest use - which work ok.
linuxgirlie Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Please correct me if I am wrong but I was always told that IPCop was the split off of Smoothwall?
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