I'm placing an order today for a new server. The school I'm using it at has about 75 thin clients. Currently we're using an smbldap serer and two dual-core 4GB ram servers.
I'm gonna spend 5 or 6 K today on a 64bit 8-core 16GB ram monster. (well monster compared to what I have right now) Now I'd like to just add this new box to the network as another ltsp server using 64 bit edubuntu or fedora+ltsp, but so far my couple of months with a 64 bit desktop have me thinking this might not be the best approach. The main problem I have is that Adobe's has yet to get off their butts and product a 64bit flash plugin. I know I can use the nspluginwrapper but it only seems to work about half the time, and when it does work, half the time sound doesn't. I imagine that sound through the thin clients will be even more troublesome. The other option I have is to load centos5.1 or ubuntu 8.04 on the new server and something like vmware server to slice it up with 4 or so 32bit guests. That second option seems like a waste of resources, but it may give me less headaches. Surely there are other ltsp users in the same boat right now? Thoughts? Thanks, Luis -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
