Hi Alkis, I come back on this... To have better performance with my poor hardware has sense to use a more light desktop environment or install Xubuntu/Lubuntu on my server? Does your LTSP work on other Ubuntu derivatives?
Thank you! 2015-11-26 10:29 GMT+01:00 Alkis Georgopoulos <[email protected]>: > Don't follow any wiki links for localapps. > ltsp-pnp already has all the applications locally in the "chroot". > You can try to launch a browser locally by running: > $ ltsp-localapps xterm > and then inside the xterm > $ firefox > ..but you'll see that 256 MB RAM is too little to run a browser locally. > > Also Geode support in Linux is pretty lame, and it's frequently a cause > for crashes. > > Try netbooting a desktop PC, something with e.g. 2 GB RAM and > 2000 score > in cpubenchmark.net. It will automatically boot as a fat client, the > browser will run locally and flash performance will be fine. > > It's time to upgrade your clients to fats. :) > > > On 26/11/2015 10:06 πμ, Giacomo Trovato wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I've an LTSP PnP classroom with 10 Alix2d13 thin clients (AMD Geode LX >> 500 Mhz, 256 MB ram) . >> The server is an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz, 4 GB ram. >> >> I've two main problems: >> - sometimes the thin clients hang without any message (especially with >> graphic applications); could be an hardware or a software problem >> related to Geode drivers? How I can check if I have the proper Geode >> driver installed? >> - the users complain about low Internet performances when all clients >> use game with flash. The server doesn't seem overloaded; I do not think >> a problem related with Internet bandwidth (it's around 6 Mbps). Could be >> a problem related to an overload of thin client? Could be useful to >> install a proxy or install Firefox as local app on thin clients? >> >> Thank you for the answers! >> >> >> > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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