>________________________________ > From: Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> >To: Matt Johnson <[email protected]> >Cc: Edubuntu Users <[email protected]>; Edubuntu Developers ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 22 October 2012, 12:23 >Subject: Re: Announcing Edubuntu 12.10 > >On 10/22/2012 09:48 AM, Matt Johnson wrote: >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> >>> To: Edubuntu Users <[email protected]>; Edubuntu Developers >>> <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2012, 18:15 >>> Subject: Announcing Edubuntu 12.10 >>> >>> >>> For larger deployments and environments where a stable, well tested >>> system is preferred, the Edubuntu development team strongly recommends >>> staying on the Long Term Support releases (current release is 12.04.1). >>> >>> LTSP users should also remain on Edubuntu 12.04 LTS as 12.10 is lacking >>> Unity support for LTSP and has been reported to be much slower than 12.04. >> >> What is 'reported to be slower' on 12.10 LTSP than 12.04 LTSP... Is it >> specifically Unity under LTSP or the whole LTSP experience regardless of >> desktop environment? >> >> -- >> Matt > >Mostly Unity, though 12.10 also saw the inclusion of quite a few desktop >software depending on clutter which in turn requires 3D acceleration to >work. >For those, the thin client will use llvmpipe to do 3D acceleration in >software, leading to pretty high CPU usage on the server side which can >easily slow down all your clients. > > >So unless you really need a lot of new software that can only be found >in 12.10, I'd strongly recommend using 12.04.1.
Thanks - that is appreciated advice. 12.04.1 it is, then. And thanks all for an excellent solution for schools. Kind regards, -- Matt -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
