Rick Funderburg wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
At this point, LTSP is an overuse of resources. This is not a slight
on the LTSP people, it's simply that technology advance has rendered
their original starting assumptions invalid.
With people throwing away USB drives and compact flash and DVD readers
so pathetically cheap, a LiveCD system is both more robust and more
reliable than an LTSP system. It also doesn't require a hard drive.
What about when you want to upgrade your software? Burn 50 cd's every
time or run apt-get on one server machine?
What about when everybody fires up Firefox or OpenOffice simultaneously
and brings the server to its knees?
The wait for simultaneous launch is paid *every time* a group starts up
their systems. This is not theoretical; it happens at the start of
every class period. LTSP is targeted at educational users, after all.
You cost is a one time (or infrequent) cost to the system administrator.
And, I would add, the time cost of securing and configuring that
system for 50 heterogeneous clients probably outweighs burning 50 CDs
which, by their nature, are incorruptible and identical (because the
LiveCD does all the probing to configure the system).
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