Yes, IceWM is good enough but I don't have a choice but to use either
KDE or Gnome for this project.
In connection with this, which of the two is much faster to use for this
kind of an LTSP setup?
I don't know. KDE was considered more "bloated" (or complicated for fans
;o) than GNOME, however the recent versions are IMO quite comparable
(KDE has little optimised, GNOME has a little bloated since :o) Using
apps is almost equal with both in means of speed, AFAIK. I feel that
GNOME is simpler, less effects etc. so it could be better choice for
LTSP. However KDE is able to shut selected effects off, so this depends
more on what apps will You be using. Evolution, Mozilla and OOo are
going towards GNOME and Firefox both with Thunderbird have their build
for GTK2 and OOo will probably have one next year, so I'll prefer this.
It is possibly only my personal opinion and I'm not saying KDE is worse.
As much as I would like to control the applications that will cause the
network hog, I don't have a choice but to install those applications
that we all know can really affect the performance of the LTSP network
like the flash plugin, JRE, etc.
You still can filter unwanted flash animations on proxy using SquidGuard
(that is not that simple, but I did it so not impossible ;o) You can
e.q. select sites that go with flash, and others will go with no flash.
Thanks for this tip. I should compile my own kernel for the LTSP thin
clients.
I meant server kernel. Clients-side kernel is much complicated problem,
and I cannot guarantee any visible difference with machines of P100 and
stronger. Client-side kernel doesn't affect server performance, only
"smoothness" and startup time of client. And even this only in very
limited manner. If U have really weak clients and quite much time, do
it. Otherwise I'll suggest: let it be ;o)
You're right. :)
My last question for this is, can VNC help the performance if combined
in an LTSP setup? Any advice for this kind of setup?
VNC is much slower than remote X session AFAIK.
Thanks again.
Marvin
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