I must say that the move from 7.04 to 8.04 has been very disappointing. I have 8 HP t5125 which are 400MHz 128MB ram machines. They ran perfectly under 7.04 avoiding heavy websites. Under 8.04 they are useless if the user starts multitasking , i.e. having an open office document open , email and a remote desktop session the machines just freeze. I have tried XRAMPERC to no avail. I actually ended up buying newer more expensive terminals. I have however also found ION 603 (http://www.tss.co.th/downloads/ION-A603%20Overview.pdf) which once you get the geode driver working has much better performance , I could launch almost all applications at once and watch a full screen movie. Only cost R1500 (+/- $200) .
There is a serious increase in the thin clients requirements with 8.04. I don't believe it is just Firefox , I think there is some other cause , just don't know what. I feel it is the ram I think 8.04 really needs 256MB ram. I am waiting for a quite period so I can try going back to a redhat / fedora base , as I had much faster performance on that platform. I also miss teacher tool. Dean Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > > >> As a follow-on to this question, is the XRAMPERC variable that was available >> in Gutsy still available in Hardy? I added a setting to >> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf, but users could still crash their >> terminals by going to a particularly graphics heavy website in Firefox. >> > > I'm not sure about XRAMPERC to be honest, but it's disappointing to hear > firefox crashed a client as, if that's firefox v3, it should have the new > code in it to reduce the stress it puts on the X server (which caused it to > crash). > > Are you using firefox v3, yeah? > > Gavin > > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
