2006/3/29, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I believe there is some confusion about terminology here. I use the > terms like this, and recommend others do the same: > > Thin client > ----------- > > Client booting over the net, mounting read-only file system over the > net from its boot server, running X locally, and all user > application on a thin client server. This is the default LTSP > configuration. > > Diskless workstation > -------------------- > > Client booting over the net, mounting read-only file system over the > net from its boot server, running X and all user applications > locally. No user applications are executed on the server. This is > not the default LTSP configuration, and is enabled using the > ltsp-make-client script from the debian-edu-config package. Someone > used to call these half-thick clients, but I do not like that term.
which is the default configuration on skolelinux now ? I have the following questions then. I used to have a lab with thin client that were running on a server with woody debian potato that had been setup in 2000 with the then very new plume system (similar to lessdisk for what I have understood). The server is a bi-pentium II at 600 MHz with 512 MB RAM and 18 GB HD, the 20 clients were (are !) old 486 computers with 32 MB RAM (the newest machines are PII with 128 MB RAM). Everythin was running fine, sometimes (but sometimes only) a little slowly for some large applications. As we were quite dependent on the technical people who helped to set the classroom up, and as they told me they could not afford to take the time to do some upgrade to woody then sarge to be on par with the current stable release of debian, and to have some more modern applications (like the new gcompris for example that does not build on potato !), I decided to reinstall the server with skolelinux. The installation went fine, and I tested the system with a machine that I had for the tests, a PII with 128 MB RAM. It was fine. So I went to the school, plugged all the computers ( old 486 terminals) in, configured dhcpd.conf with the appropriate info as these are ISA machines ... and waited a long time for the terminals to boot. It took me some time to understand that the clients were not, as they were, thin client, but that by default they became diskless workstation that used a lot of the ressources, swapped on the network ... As these terminals do not have enough memory, they swap all the time I suppose (by the way, how can I measure this swapping ?) and as the server that was OK previously and was a good machine back in 2000 is now a crappy little one, it is ont its knee. So my questions: how can I configure skolelinux sarge to be 1/ _ONLY_ a thin clients server and clients configuration, 2/ a system where only "light" applications are uses (I use XFCE on the terminals) 3/ how can I also easily change and have a unique xfcerc for all users to easily change it and adapt the menus it contains ? Maybe with some links. (before trying I would like to know if someone already has some xperience of such a configuration) Much thanks, Nicolas I tried Everything was running fine > Friendly, > -- > Petter Reinholdtsen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Nicolas Pettiaux - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
