Have you looked at ubuntu distribution of linux. I think they have a 'school' variant which might be close to what you need. Also, the people there might be able to give you more help. Good luck. On Thu, December 7, 2006 9:39, Saqib Ali said: > Hello All, > > I know this is little bit off-topic but I think users of this group > can give good advice on this topic. > > We have a in-house built application using MySQL + PHP + Apache. It is > essentially a elaborate collection of online forms that will be used > for managing school scholarship in the 3rd world countries. The > student/teachers will either come to the office or fill out the forms > online. > > We have identified few pilot location and would like to deploy this > application. However due to lack of IT support at the location we have > decided to use a pre-configured appliance which support the LAMP > stack. All we want to do is directly ship the appliance to the > location, and remotely install our app. > > We want the appliance to require minimal maintenance and > administration, and have a auto-update feature to get security patches > etc. > > I had previously worked on a similar project and used Sun Cobalt 550 > servers. But now I think Sun has stopped making them and you can only > buy them refurbished and the auto-update features are severely > limited. > > Any other suggestion??? We want the appliance to cost us $1,000 / unit. > > Thanks > saqib > http://www.full-disk-encryption.net > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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