I can guarantee that its not Ubuntu Hardy's fault... we run really old dell P II 500 mhz with 128MB Ram without any issues at all... server responds instantly to sessions and people can multitask nicely... There were many problems with Firefox 3 beta 5 (which came out as default with hardy) as well as hard drive thrashing with open office and that kind of thing... but if you upgrade to 8.0.1 (or is it 2 now) it should be fine....
If you miss teacher tool, take a look at italc... much more powerful and now has intra station messaging... works nicely to monitor thin terminals... David Van Assche On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Dean Mumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users