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Wizzy Digital Courier relies on standard networking protocols for the interactive portions, linked by UUCP - Unix-to-Unix-Copy - for the intermittent sections.

Our software is based on RedHat Linux, currently version 8.0. Though the software can be used for individuals and businesses, for explanation purposes below I will assume a school installation.
There are two 'locations' the software is installed - the school, and the place that has full access to Internet, which may, or may not, be the school. I shall call this place the 'Server'.
At the school, we have the following setup (all Redhat - RH8 plus several RPMs I have packaged) :-

'Wizzy' server - 200+Mhz, 256M RAM, 40Gig RAID 1 disk
DHCP, TFTP for booting
LDAP for Authentication
UUCP for /all/ communication
BIND for nameservices, on local network
LTSP packages for Thin client NFS-mounted root directory
Courier IMAP server for inbound mail +webmail
exim for outbound mail
wwwoffle as local web cache, some custom programs
apache webserver for simple Intranet stuff and webmail
vsftpd for a local FTP server
dialup to any ISP, but mail goes through my server in Cape Town using UUCP.
Home directories to be NFS-mounted off Thin Client servers
RAID disk system

This holds all our custom software, and the important data, like mail and Home directories.
I have the following packages installed :-

dhcpd
bind
openldap
openldap-clients
openldap-servers
last (to edit the LDAP database)
courier
courier-imapd
courier-ldap
courier-webmail
aspell (to spellcheck webmail)
aspell-en-gb
pspell
exim (for sending mail)
ltsp_core
ltsp_floppyd
ltsp_kernel
ltsp_x_core
tftp-server
talk-server
telnet-server
uucp
vsftpd
xinetd
wwwoffle

If the school is handling its own network installation, desktops, etc., maybe Windows, this is the only server.
In a Thin Client school setup, another machine is needed to host all the user applications - the Thin Client server.

One or two Thin Client servers - 1.4GHZ -> 2.4GHZ, 1 Gig RAM
/home mounted off wizzy server
xfce Window Manager
Authentication via LDAP on wizzy server
No user data.

Packages installed here are desktop apps selected for school use.

We have the following packages installed.

Many of those RPMs come with Redhat 8.0 and later - others my be found on my ftp site.