Thanks all for the replies. I've started to experiment with the environments
mentioned to evaluate the various offers.
Much obliged.
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Matt
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> From: "Rippl, Steve" <[email protected]>
>To: Matt Johnson <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, 7 September 2012, 16:33
>Subject: Re: Desktop choice/performance
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>We experimented with the Lubuntu/LXDE desktop under 12.04 LTSP and it was
>great in terms if it's small resource requirements, however the Xubuntu/XFCE
>proved more useful to use because of it's greater configurability, we lock
>down the desktop to a considerable degree for the students and XFCE lets us do
>that while still having reasonable low hardware requirements.
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>On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Matt Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>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.
>>
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