On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Robert Arkiletian <[email protected]> wrote: > In my opinion, the days of LTSP are numbered. For a few different reasons. > > 1) > hardware is so cheap now. You can buy a brand new power efficient and > fast desktop system for about $200 (not including monitor). Thin
Forgot to mention I mean a *diskless* desktop system. > > 2) > DRBL. This is the route I have taken. It's similar to ltsp boot > process via pxe but ALL processes run locally. Only the filesystem is > remote via nfs. There is no need for special plumbing for sound or > local devices. Everything works like a stand alone system. Except the > first time to launch (not run) apps is slightly longer since the > binary needs to be downloaded into local ram from the network before > it can be run. One user can't hog ram or cpu. Full class of full > screen video and flash, no problem. I even have had an entire class of > students simultaneously install and run Ubuntu in a Virtualbox VM on > top of the diskless client OS. Local apps with LTSP cannot do this. > Although I do have dual gigabit nics for the lan and hardware raid 10 > for the server. Each client can have it's own nfs mounted /etc and > /var so there can still be customization per client. Plus you get the benefit of managing only one system, like LTSP. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
