Filling my Technological Void|Learning to Adapt to new Technology…… The Hard Way.

The college I go to has assigned me with the task of fixing their network. Well actually they want me to fix a Lab which has around 15 Prehistoric Computers and 3 average systems. The main objective the teachers would like to get accomplished is to have a network where all students files are located on a central server. At the moment each students just logs on to whatever system he / she wants and just saves all the files to the local hard disk. Further they would like a bulletin board or message board sort of facility included which would allow them to post messages to a group of students or issue Homework questions and other notices .

Well after proper consideration I’ve decided to give Cent Os 5.2 a try on the network. Not only is the operating system free but it has the features that the staff we’re looking for. So I decided to download it from one of the torrents which you can find here. While downloading it I noticed that i got speeds in excess of 100 Kbps easily so the download didn’t take alot of time either. Although the server is going to be Linux based I’m still keeping the systems as WIndows XP or Windows 2000, If I feel the old systems are too weak to run them then I’ll probably even give Arch a whirl on them. I’ll be sure to update my progress here.