World Computer Exchange installs "edubuntu-desktop" on stand-alone computers that we send to classrooms in developing countries. We do no use LTSP.
In considering the upgrade to 12.04 from 10.04 as our standard OS, we were concerned about how this would impact performance and the minimum specs on our refurbished computers We ran a comparison tests of performance with different desktops. I don't pretend that the measures are scientifically accurate but they showed general trend that helped us decide We will be using 12.04 with the LXDE desktop See attached -- Jack ODonnell Chicago Coordinator Content Project Manager Regional Manager for Latin America 773 316 2944 http://www.WorldComputerExchange.org Technology + Education = Potential http://www.WorldComputerExchange.org/Chicago-il Chicago Chapter On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 01:20 -0700, Matt Johnson wrote: > We are running LTSP on Ubuntu 10.04 across 64 workstations distributed across > 8 classrooms and in one computer suite in a school in Hertfordshire, UK. > > We are beginning to plan for our move to a fresh install of Edubuntu 12.04. I > note that the Edubuntu screenshots page shows Unity, which we are keen to > deploy, and then the more traditional desktop 'fallback' which is says is > more suited to LTSP environments. This implies a performance hit for running > Unity (2d?) in LTSP environments. > > What are folks' experiences of running Unity (2d?) versus the fallback mode > in an LTSP deployment? Have people experienced a performance hit from moving > from Gnome 2 on 10.04 to Unity 2d on 12.04? Realistically, should we expect > to be running fallback mode to achieve a similar level of performance to our > current install? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Matt >
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