I want to Thank everyone who participated in this thread. The information
is exactly what I was in search of.
Rgrds,
v21networks
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:27 PM, James Linder <j...@tigger.ws> wrote:
>
> On 19/12/2012, at 2:18 AM, ltsp-discuss-request@lists.sourceforge.netwrote:
>
> >>>> 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
>
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