by following this howto on low fat clients and installing a real minimal environment in the chroot as mentioned there + rdesktop. could work. I'm going to test this myself as an alternative to running vmware from the thin clients: seems like better use of resources.
David https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:41:52 -0800, Mike White wrote > > > I'll be short. What is the near-most stripped down configuration I can > > > give Edubuntu 7.04? > > > > I am only using Edubuntu to PXE boot into MS Terminal Service 2003, so > > > I only need the Terminal Server Client program and sometimes Mozilla > > > Firefox. I don't need games, printing services, nor development > > > programs, etc. > > One approach woukd be to install the server edition and then install the > ltsp packages for the client, openssh-server, gnome-rdp. > > Does rdesktop run on the server or have you installed it into the client > chroot? If it runs on the server, you're sending traffic > > windows <-> edubuntu server <-> thin client > > whereas if you installed rdesktop straight into the chroot, you could have > rdesktop run on the thin client and directly contact the windows server: > > windows <-> thin client > > which would likely a bit better. LTSP kiosks do this, but run firefox on > the thin client instead of rdesktop. Installing rdesktop on the client and > having it run automatically should be easy enough on 7.04 actually. We do > this to provide web terminals without accounts on the server. > > > > I have already uninstalled Evolution, Thunderbird, Openoffice, and > some > > > games. I did this just out of maintenance and noticed the general > speed > > > of the clients is MUCH faster. I'd like to go supersonic if possible. > =) > > I've got to say, that makes very little sense to me. If the programs are > sitting idle on the server disk, removing them may save disk space, but it > won't save any RAM or cpu so there's no real reason this would make > anything faster. > > "Installing programs slows down your computer" is an old windows wives > tale. It has some truth on windows (where programs like winzip, office, > realplayer, etc. frequently autostart in the background and several > filesystems have severe fragmentation issues), but it really shouldn't be > true on linux in general. > > Come to think of it, evolution does autostart some calendar component by > default so perhaps that's an exception and explains your speed gains. > Removing most programs should make little or no difference though. > > A small word of warning though. Upgrades can occasionally be a little > troublesome where you break from the standard package (ie you uninstalled > the edubuntu-desktop meta-package if you removed evolution). > > > Ubuntu JeOS might be what you are looking for. > > Maybe, though I'm not sure how well it works in non-virtualised > environments. > > "JeOS is a specialized installation of Ubuntu Server Edition with a tuned > kernel that only contains the base elements needed to run within a > virtualized environment." > > just sort of sounds like it might be missing components needed on real > hardware. > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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