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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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the school? We set up our first Moodle on a spare desktop running WinXP and
XAMPP. It did not take long to set up and worked well. Then when the need
grew and people liked what was on offer, we migrated to a proper server running
Win2003. On the other side the free version on VMWare is a high quality
product and worth looking at.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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opensource-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:opensource-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jack Matthews<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, 26 May 2008 10:19 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Open Source Software Mailing
List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Opensource] Moodle
Server Specs</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Hi <br>
<br>
I do not have access to a server and it will remain that way for the near
future. The only way around this issue is to use my USB laptop
drive. A linux server would be nice but right now I literally have no
harware to install it on. The existing XP computer is simply one of the
class computers. As I understand VMware will cost money and I'm not sure
running VMware off a USB would do the trick. I am not allowed to install
anything on the computers because they are used for TEFOL testing and the
people here are paranoid about it.<br>
<br>
-Jack Matthews<br>
<br>
> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:14:05 +1000<br>
> From: pia@waughpartners.com.au<br>
> To: opensource@edulists.com.au<br>
> Subject: Re: [Opensource] Moodle Server Specs<br>
> <br>
> Hi Jack,<br>
> <br>
> <quote who="Jack Matthews"><br>
> <br>
> > 2. Will running off a USB drive severely harm performance. (Is is<br>
> > possible to 25 students to com! plete a quiz from a Server running
from a<br>
> > USB laptop drive?)<br>
> <br>
> Why don't you just run it under a vmware instance with Ubuntu which gets<br>
> around the "connections" issue. In fact, why don't you just
install edubuntu<br>
> which already is completely set up to do exactly what you are trying to<br>
> achieve :)<br>
> <br>
> http://edubuntu.org/<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Pia<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Waugh Partners<br>
> <br>
> m. +61 400 966 453<br>
> p. +61 2 9318 0284<br>
> f. +61 2 9318 2884<br>
> w. http://waughpartners.com.au/<br>
> <br>
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