Jordan Erickson schrieb: > Rob/all, > > I've been following this thread closely, and it seems a LOT of people > are still on LTSP 4.2 and either CentOS or Debian. > > I have to ask, being an Ubuntu-only LTSP shop (right now, anyway) - are > there issues regarding Firefox? OpenOffice? Crashes of any kind? Do you > use Java web browser plugins? Flash? Light multimedia? How do they > perform under 4.2 and your distro compared to LTSP 5?
Jordan, I've been in the Suse line from my first steps with Linux, and still using it. Currently we've got an LTSP server with Suse 10.3 and LTSP 4.2 running. Everything works just fine, if you know how to handle a Suse :-) > all of these things, and if there's a distribution other than Ubuntu > that can provide all of these things, with increased stability, it might > be worth trying (even if it means reverting back to 4.2). The thing is, Stability is good to excellent. > they are mostly all elementary schools, so they *do* need to have things > like Flash, Java, and STABLE browsers (I.E. don't crash consistently Ours are young adults, but their needs are the same. As they make a professional training, they also need MSoffice, i. e. I've got Crossover on the system, too. In my office, I'm using the same system for my office work, without any major problem. I rarely use MSoffice (but for only a few tasks), preferring OOo for the more ambitious office tasks. > during normal browsing or using Java applets) and office productivity > suites (Firefox/pixmap crashing issues in 2.x series was a horrible let > down, and 3.x seems to suffer from new bugs under multi-user servers > with even *creating* user profiles OpenOffice seems to crash on a Suse brings its own OOo version, but I just cancelled its installation and installed an own one which belongs to my account and so could be updated regularly for everyone without being root. Unfortunately, it turned out that the next update (I'm talking about 2.4.something) wouldn't start properly on our system, so I downgraded to the previous version. Maybe 3 will run better, we'll see. Currently not so important for us. Firefox? Same procedure: Installed "my" own version, it updates regularly, no real problem so far. The only problem we had in the past occured when the terminals couldn't swap (RAM problem). But I wouldn't dare to update to 3 until all the problems are solved. Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
