Patrick Rady wrote: > I need something that will work for office work and for volunteers that want > to do things like outreach on dodgy social sites and stuff that requires > multimedia. I find its a tough sell to tell people coming from MS Windows > environments that they can't expect to use YouTube anymore, or listen to a > webinar. > This isn't the case (for me, anyway). There's no issue for me at multiple LTSP sites with Flash 9.0.124 under Ubuntu 8.04. Even with 35 going at the same time. Firefox 3, on the other hand, is an issue - but I moved to 2.0 (which is still available in Hardy repos) and it's disappeared. Something I have to test with entropy and random vs urandom... There are some issues with crashing/pixmap stuff that's been an issue for forever in 2, and 3 promised to have that fixed - but an array of new issues crop up now that make 3.x very hard for us to use at all, so 2.x is definitely better.
> CentOS intrigues me, as does OpenSuSE- if for no other reason, than that it > feels like OpenSuSE's community is more active. > > But, we might just try Debian- as the change would be less jarring, and > Debian seems certainly more stable than Ubuntu. > There is always a balance between stability and functionality, especially in the thin-client world. That'll be the case with any distro, but definitely some pay more attention to certain environments than others. > Basically, our particular situation isn't very well served by the six-month > development cycle of Ubuntu. And their priorities no longer seem to jibe very > well with ours. > What priorities would you say those are? I haven't tried any other distros besides Ubuntu for LTSP, but I've always had a great response from the developers while working on things. For me it's only frustrating when working with a version you'd like to standardize on (such as an LTS version) but always knowing that there will be features and bugfixes in the next version only (read: not backported) so...to be more stable than an LTS version, you need to upgrade to a non-LTS version...? That was always pretty bass-ackwards for me. Right when Hardy was released, the main focus was then put on Intrepid. Maybe there just isn't as much of a drive to create rock-solidity as Debian always has been. But again, features vs. stability... Cheers, Jordan/Lns ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
