Sound is a problem in PXES....I only saw sound working fine on Sunrays 
...!!!

Thanks & regards
Ashish Nabira
Sun Microsystems
Ph: +91 80 66930854
"Work is worship."


Krsnendu Dasa wrote On 09/23/06 00:26,:
> How is the sound in PXES?
> 
> On 23/09/06, Ashish Nabira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>I think it's still freely downloadable from
>>http://downloads.2x.com/pxes/. I tried all the options of PXES and it
>>works well even if you want image for LTSP.
>>
>>I use PXES when I want to work with Windows 2003 and terminal server.
>>Otherwise LTSP is best. !!
>>
>>Thanks & regards
>>Ashish Nabira
>>Sun Microsystems
>>Ph: +91 80 66930854
>>"Work is worship."
>>
>>
>>Frank Bergmann wrote On 09/22/06 20:49,:
>>
>>>I used PXES for some years. I think the main difference is the
>>>config-program which makes it realy nice for admins to customize kernels and
>>>config params for the client (gui<-> lts.conf). Moreover, D.T. Milano
>>>integrated NX, RDP, X11 and (optionally) a local window manager from which
>>>you can open the preconfigured connections. Really nice, but Diego sold it
>>>to 2X and I personaly prefer "free" software.
>>>>From ltsp point of view there is no "real" difference, because the
>>>connection to the server is usually made by xdmcp, too.
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Todd
>>>Shoemaker
>>>Gesendet: Freitag, 22. September 2006 14:52
>>>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
>>>Betreff: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Comparison of LTSP & PXES
>>>
>>>
>>>I had to use Google to discover that PXES is 2X ThinClient.
>>>
>>>I believe 2X uses RDP or NX, both of which are 'buffered' remote
>>>displays, meaning that on the server a local snapshot of the graphical
>>>display is kept in memory, and periodically the differences that have
>>>occurred on the display are compressed and sent to the remote terminal
>>>(this is also how the Sun Ray system works, too, I believe).  This
>>>methodology has a couple of advantages: (1) on slow, high-latency
>>>connections such as the Internet or a slower WAN, the remote client will
>>>get much better performance, (2) the client can disconnect or lose their
>>>connection, but they can reconnect at a later time and the display is
>>>still there, since the display was present on the server at all times.
>>>
>>>LTSP uses normal remote X11, which does not keep a display buffer on the
>>>server and has no native compression.  This makes it very poor on slow,
>>>high-latency connections, and if the user disconnects or the connection
>>>drops, there is no way to restore the display; the user must login
>>>again.  However, the primary benefit of LTSP is that X11 is virtually
>>>indistinguishable from a local desktop when running on a LAN, because
>>>there is no buffering to slow things up.  RDP or NX are pretty snappy
>>>over a good Internet connection, but they don't get much faster when run
>>>over a LAN.  Even casual users can distinguish between an RDP session
>>>and a local desktop (menus are not as snappy, scrolling is affected,
>>>video or flash animations are affected), whereas they cannot normally
>>>distinguish remote X11 from a local desktop for most non-game
>>>applications.
>>>
>>>-Todd
>>>
>>>Ashish Nabira wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello All;
>>>>
>>>>May I know advantages of LTSP over PXES ??
>>>>
>>>>LTSP requires NFS which pxes doesn't require. But when I test both
>>>>setup
>>>>for SUSE 10.1 , I found that LTSP was faster as compared to PXES.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks & regards
>>>>Ashish Nabira
>>>>Sun Microsystems
>>>>Ph: +91 80 66930854
>>>>"Work is worship."
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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