Course Requirements: Each student will be required to bring their own laptop for use in the lab sessions. The laptop will need to fit the following specifications:

  • 1.0 ghz Pentium M/D or better
  • 2.4 ghz Pentium 4 or better
  • 512mb of RAM (1gb preferred)
  • 5gb of free hard disk space
  • CD or DVD drive
  • 10/100 Ethernet Port
  • Windows XP (Or other OS if user has VMWare loaded)

Each student will be provided the trixbox VMWare image and the VMWare Player at registration so they can install trixbox on his/her laptop for course lab work. Note that the course does not presume that the students are full-time sysadmins, however are presumed to have some general computer experience.