On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:22, Ken Cobler wrote: > > > MS Windows 2000 is a hog (XP is even worse). So, you will experience a > performance hit on the LTSP server when a user wants to run Windows > 2000. Plus it is not effective to run a new copy of Windows 2000 > (through VMWare) when another user needs to run a Windows application. > Crossover (the pay-for version of wine) does a good job (as for > performance) at allowing Windows applications to execute natively on Linux.
I agree. > I would only DO the VMWare for a single copy of a Windows application > that cannot run under wine. More than one user or application that > needs to fork its own copy of a Windows OS and you will tank your server. Yeah. > How many concurrent Windows application will be required to run at the > same time? That is the question. If you are doing this for proof of > concept or experience, then try VMWare. If you are trying to use this > as a production server, go with a separate Windows server and rdesktop > from LTSP to the Windows server. You're right. This is just for experience. I want to learn different LTSP solutions for different possible problems in an organization. Thanks for the tip. --> Marvin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
