Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
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).
-a
True. All the approaches have drawbacks. LTSP ensures that you
basically have the same experience on any terminal (since everything is
hosted on the server) but can have a server bottleneck. Booting off of
CD or USB works, but has a software distribution (and possibly
configuration) problem. It seems to me that a reasonable middle ground
is using network boot instead of a livecd. Centralized software
management while allowing the terminals to do the work. You can even
modify the network boot to load different configurations for different
hardware while still having centralized software management.
Pick the solution that makes the most sense.
-- Rick
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