[Opensource] Moodle Server Specs

[Stephen Bloomer]

Do you have access to a spare desktop at 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.

 

Stephen Bloomer
sbloomer at stpeters.vic.edu.au 
Network Manager
St. Peter's College
Cranbourne-Frankston Road
Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3977

Phone  +61 3 5996 6733
Fax      +61 3 5996 8277

 

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From: opensource-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:opensource-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jack Matthews
Sent: Monday, 26 May 2008 10:19 PM
To: Open Source Software Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Opensource] Moodle Server Specs

 

Hi 

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.

-Jack Matthews

> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:14:05 +1000
> From: pia at waughpartners.com.au
> To: opensource at edulists.com.au
> Subject: Re: [Opensource] Moodle Server Specs
> 
> Hi Jack,
> 
> <quote who="Jack Matthews">
> 
> > 2. Will running off a USB drive severely harm performance. (Is is
> > possible to 25 students to com! plete a quiz from a Server running
from a
> > USB laptop drive?)
> 
> Why don't you just run it under a vmware instance with Ubuntu which
gets
> around the "connections" issue. In fact, why don't you just install
edubuntu
> which already is completely set up to do exactly what you are trying
to
> achieve :)
> 
> http://edubuntu.org/
> 
> Cheers,
> Pia
> 
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