Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with FreeNX

[Poul Moller]

Jim McQuillan wrote: On Thu, March 2, 2006 3:45 pm, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 09:05 -0700, Roy Souther wrote: Sorry for going off topic a bit. I don't think FreeNX is needed for internal networks using LTSP. I wouldn't be so quick to make that jugdement. Besides the bandwidth savings, which admittedly on a LAN may not be necessary, NX will save the running session if it's disconnected. This can be a LIFE SAVER. I've implemented FreeNX and Thinstation for a large trucking company in Ontario. They're in an area that has frequent power outages during storms. They have UPSes for a number of fat clients, but now that they're running thin clients, the UPSes are redundant. If the power does go out, the server keeps running (on a UPS). Everyones' thin clients turn off, but their session is automatically saved. When the power returns, employees turn on their thin clients, login, and viola, they're reconnected to their sessions as if nothing had happened. Of course, you can control and instead not automatically reconnect to a saved session, but in most cases, auto reconnect is preferred. XDMCP is great. But, I think LTSP or Thinstation or whatever, together with FreeNX/NX, is an awesome combination. And really, why knock the bandwidth savings? They could help stave off expensive network upgrades. Keep in mind, the increased network throughput doesn't come for free. It places a significant load on the server, both in terms of memory requirements and cpu requirements. If you've got the spare horsepower on your server to run it, then it's awesome. If not, then you have to decide if the increased bandwidth is worth it. The price (read load) is adjustable. You can set the compression level to modem, isdn, adsl, wan, lan to match your needs. Additionally you can turn off encryption to save load in a LAN environment. A great tool, that I use often. Soon I'll try out the work done at  http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#NX All in all, I do think that NX is a great technology, and one of these days i'm going to spend some time with it and get to know it better. LTSP and NX together will be disruptive technology. Poul Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 15:35:52 up 2 days, 21:04, 3 users, load average: 0.86, 0.68, 0.47 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=k&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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