On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Ariz C. Jacinto wrote: > > > ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > > >On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ariz C. Jacinto wrote: > > > > > > > >>i've the same question actually. anybody here tried benchmarking > >>LTSP? (for reference, 2003 TS can still satisfactorily perform for > >>70 users (16 of which are off-shore) using graphics intensive > >>applications on a dual xeon (2.8GHz), 1GB DDRAM, 1Gbps NIC > >>machine. > >> > >> > > > >Interesting. 70 users! What do your users run? > > > > > Image Manipulation Applications, Typesetting Applications, Office > Applications, > Web/PDF Publishing Applications & Web browsing (+ Solitaire). > > Web browsing???, off-shore users used the 2003 TS for browsing the web > as part of > their operation and according to their evaluation, browsing is much > faster compared > to using their own internet link since the bandwidth consumption is at > the TS side > which is equipped with much greater bandwidth. unbelievable? we have the > same > reaction actually but it really makes sense. RDP seems to be optimized, > no wonder > MS bought(?) the Citrix technology that would kill VNC on Win32. and the > best part > of it, gnu/linux supports RDP thru RDesktop. > >
Oh i get it. The actual LTSP runs nothing but RDesktop, and RDesktop i assume connects to some winblows box which actually does the running of the applications like browsing etc... AM i right? -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
