On 19/12/2012, at 2:18 AM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>>>> A great deal of the Linux Distros are becoming too heavy. >>>> Which is the lightest and offer the most in >>>> terms of scalability, support and deployment in anyones' opinion? >>> Debian + LXDE, I think. Debian support (almost) every arch. And LXDE is >>> one of the lightest DE. >>> >>> http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto >>> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian >> I use LTSP-PNP (Ubuntu 12.04 + LXDE). Here is something about DEs, same >> laptop as a fat client, memory 1 GB. >> >> >> Lubuntu 21% >> >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/LUBUNTU_01.png >> >> MATE 25% >> >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/MATE_01.png >> >> Xubuntu 26% >> >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/XUBUNTU_01.png >> >> Gnome Classic 32% >> >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/GNOME-CLASSIC_01.png >> >> Unity 39% >> >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/UBUNTU_01.png >> >> Kubuntu 58% >> >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/KUBUNTU_01.png >> >> >> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. > Aiming for a light, capable, well-supported balance, I've been working > with Lubuntu + LTSP and now LTSP-PNP. At the performance level, this > choice was not based on any systematic benchmarking but on some > selective testing. I would be interested in knowing if someone has > compared that to another contender like Deb If you ian + LTSP. > > I also looked at Alt Linux. I did not find any distro with lower memory > requirements than this. But development has been patchy, and when I > looked at it 6 months ago it needed a big push to become current again, > and it would also need more language support for development work. (A > lot of the documentation and a bit of the interface is in Russian, > though Michael Shigorin, one of the pillars of that project, has > excellent English). The question is muddied so the answers are muddied. What is a light-distro. If you are talking server then why? You need lots of RAM for the clients, disk is cheap, so this is not an area of concern. If you are talking clients then choose a distro (eg I use ubuntu 10.01) that suits, use a desktop that suits eg lxde and problem solved for ever. The only time you ever need to consider upgrading the clients is when you want more features than offered by the distro you started with. I don't use media or sound on my clients, they are perfect forever (where forever is indeterminate and long) If you are talking FAT clients then again it is because you want nice-things. So I guess the answer is choose your features - heavy-distro mix ratio. There is nothing to be gained from "I want all the nice things" on the "crappiest low end clients". I use the latest distros with the crappiest hardware (LX geode processor with 128M ram) and all is sweet. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _____________________________________________________________________ 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
