[Technical] LiveLAMP

[Con Zymaris]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:43:50PM +1000, Clark, Ian C wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> > [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
> > Sent: Wednesday, 17 August 2005 2:29 PM
> > To: tech at edulists.com.au
> > Subject: [Technical] LiveLAMP
> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > After a couple of debug cycles, LiveLAMP is entering a more 
> > usable phase of its development. We could certainly use more 
> > teacher feedback. All it takes is dwnloading and burning an 
> > ISO to CD, then finding a spare machine whose hard disk 
> > contents you can afford to wipe clean for the exercise.
> > 
> > Download from:
> > 
> >  http://livelamp.org/
> > 
> 
> Hi Con,
> 
> I was under the impression LiveLAMP was going to be to servers what
> Knoppix is to workstations - running off a CD only. Has that requirement
> changed?

Nope. No Change. Keep in mind that Knoppix too, can, when needed, write to 
(and even install to) the local disk ;-)

LiveLAMP needs to format and write to the local disk in order to  
store all student data, code and any databases requires a hard disk. It 
can support 1000 students concurrently, and thus needs to store quite a 
few gig of data somewhere ;-)

So, any old spare 5 year old machine will do the trick. Simply use a PC
that you can easily re-image when you want to. Most sites would have a 
spare machine which is too old to run XP etc.

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