The thin client point was only to express my setup as well and the findings I had with x2go/VNC/NX/etc. I believe it to be more of a bandwidth issue, as our bandwidth in our LAN is only giving out 2.3gb right now
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Walid MOGHRABI <[email protected] > wrote: > Brian, I don't really understand your point about your thin clients, LTSP > images and remote connection to RedHat VMs. > > From what I can tell, the lower spec thin clients we have are older Wyse > celeron based with 1Gb of RAM. > My thin client boot from LAN with the TCE-NG setup and simply download a > 230MB OS image and run from it diskless. > They start the X2Go client in display manager mode and eat about 512MB > RAM, OS image included (running apps goes for about 200MB). > Since it's direct X2Go connection, there is no local stuff, only remote > and these low specs Thin Clients perform as good as the higher specs PCs we > converted to Thin Clients and which are 4GB, Core i3/i5 and more ... > > > Regards, > Walid Moghrabi > > TRAVAUX.COM > BAT I - PARC CEZANNE 2 290 AVENUE GALILEE - CS 80403 > 13591 AIX EN PROVENCE CEDEX 3 > > ----- Mail original ----- > > De: "brian town" <[email protected]> > À: "Daniel Lindgren" <[email protected]> > Cc: "x2go-user" <[email protected]> > Envoyé: Mardi 13 Juin 2017 15:57:57 > Objet: Re: [X2Go-User] X2Go vs. XRDP > > > I agree with Walid about XRDP being super fast and snappy with low > resource intensive desktops. It worked really well for me with a XFCE set > up on one project I was working on. However both XRDP and X2GO could not > provide a good visualization for my current project that has thin clients > pulling down LTSP images. The LTSP desktop images are all low resource but > we use them as a jumping point to connect to Red Hat VMs. The only > connection method I found that could support a decent desktop experience > for our users as with X11VNC + XDMCP. I went through xrdp/x2go/NX and even > Horizon View and all had either poor performance or in the case of Horizon > View were just not really meant for Linux yet (the support is pretty awful). > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Lindgren < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > I have used both xrdp and X2Go for a few years, just personal use, not > professional/work related. > > > I've recently upgraded to Debian 9 with KDE Plasma 5 and had some issues > with X2Go, checked the wiki and found that Plasma 5 is unsupported at the > moment. I researched alternatives and discovered ThinLinc. > > > It's a commercial software, but free for home use up to 5 concurrent > users. Works with Plasma 5 and performance is good, at least for my use > case. > > > When/if X2Go gains support for Plasma 5 I may go back, but for now I can't > use it. > > > Cheers, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > x2go-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > x2go-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user > --- > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is private and confidential and may contain > proprietary or legally privileged information. It is for the intended > recipient only. If you have received this email in error, please notify the > author by replying to it and then destroy it. If you are not the intended > recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on > this e-mail or any attachment. Thank you >
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