Initially, at my company, we were working with Debian Etch and LTSP 4.2. We purchased some thin clients, HP T5125s, and they worked out great. Performance of the client and boot sequence were extremely fast!
We decided to move to Ubuntu and LTSP 5 because the desktop environment is better suited for us and LTSP 5 was the new thing. The install, local device support, and hardware detection is superb, but the requirements of the thin client are much greater. The thin client's specs include 400Mhz Via Eden processor, 128MB RAM, and a Via S3 graphics card, but clients seem to run noticeably slower, especially with re-draw of windows and graphics. This only happens with the HP thin clients and not low-end PCs booted as thin clients. (Personally, I would have preferred just converting old PC's to ltsp clients, but my boss loves the space saving and quiet features of the thin clients). Right now, I've got the clients setup to use XDMCP instead of LDM and that has definitely boosted performance at the expense of local device support and sound, but my question is, should I ditch LTSP 5 and switch to LTSP 4.2 for better performance with the HP thin clients or should I stick with LTSP 5 in hopes that Ubuntu 7.10's LTSP will have enough upgrades to boost performance similar to the LTSP 4.2 days with my HP thin clients? Any other similar thoughts or experiences? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
