[wellylug] Linux admin advice

[Simon Antliff]

On 5/4/05, Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just had 2x 500Mhz desktops with Linux, apache, tomcat, php, Postgres &
> Postgis supplied for a project.
> 
> The people supplying them were free to choose the distro they felt appropriate,
> and are competent Linux/Unix admins.
> 
> I am concerned over the amount of time they are claiming for this work.
> Obviously I have a preconceived idea of what is reasonable, but would like
> other's opinions.
> 
> This seems like a good place to ask :-)
> 
> So, can anyone here who has set up few such systems comment on how long they
> believe is reasonable. No virtual server config, database builds, etc, just
> install & pass on to a user who will set up the printers, databases, php "code"
> etc.
> 
> They supplied the hardware & installed the software, so IMHO, any time spent on
> hardware issues is not my problem as they should have supplied compatible
> hardware anyway, but I understand there were no such issues to slow them down.
> 
> Can you let me know what a reasonably normal time should be for this (per
> system), and about what length of time you believe it is starting to get
> unreasonable?
> 
> adTHANKSvance
> 
>   Brent


Whats the distribution?