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 Questions about anything and everything  Questions about anything and everything
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   Shown below are frequently asked questions others have
   about LON-CAPA installation and system management.  For
   a more complete FAQ, you are strongly encouraged to visit
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   <a href="http://help.lon-capa.org/">http://help.lon-capa.org/</a>
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Line 70  questions related to the LON-CAPA web in Line 79  questions related to the LON-CAPA web in
 A critical feature of the LON-CAPA interface is the idea that a user  A critical feature of the LON-CAPA interface is the idea that a user
 must select a role before doing anything further inside the educational  must select a role before doing anything further inside the educational
 system.  system.
   
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 <hr />4. <font color='blue'><font size='+1'><a name='q4' />What kind of computer and operating will this work  <hr />4. <font color='blue'><font size='+1'><a name='q4' />What kind of
 on?</font></font>  computer and operating will this work on?</font></font>
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 The operating system LON-CAPA runs on is the Linux operating  The operating system LON-CAPA runs on is the Linux operating
 system.  LON-CAPA relies on an Intel-based architecture.  system.  LON-CAPA relies on an Intel-based architecture.
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   For full-time, classroom usage, an adequate LON-CAPA server
   should be/have:
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   <li>a multiprocessor machine,</li>
   <li>a CPU speed of 1 gigahertz,</li>
   <li>a gigabyte of memory,</li>
   <li>and at least 40 to 80 gigabytes of hard disk space.</li>
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   A lesser machine can be used for toying around with LON-CAPA
   (LON-CAPA will run for a single user on most any machine).
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   LON-CAPA servers experience significant peaks of activity
   before a homework submission deadline.  To support these critical
   peaks of activity, it is strongly advised that LON-CAPA machines
   fit the above recommendation.
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   If thousands of students start accessing the box as a web server...
   well you may want to consider more options.  The design of the LON-CAPA
   system is to naturally and transparently load-balance on multiple
   computer clusters.  So, a simple solution for running an entire
   college campus is to just have an adequate plurality of LON-CAPA
   servers rather than a single, particularly monstrous server.
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   We like to think of high web server usage as "a good problem" though.. :)
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 <hr />4a. <font color='blue'><font size='+1'><a name='q4' />Will this work on BSD Unix?</font></font>  <hr />4a. <font color='blue'><font size='+1'><a name='q4' />Will this work on BSD Unix?</font></font>
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 No.  No.
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