In the LTSP terminology: * thin clients are diskless. They load a minimal OS from the server via NBD/NFS, and at login time they connect to the server with "remote X" to run the applications on the server, and transfer the screen over the network. * fat clients are diskless. They load a full OS from the server via NBD/NFS, and at login time they connect to the server only for authentication and to mount /home with SSHFS/NFS. They user their own CPU/RAM to run the applications.
My advice for you is to buy normal clients, e.g. core i3 with 4 GB RAM or similar NUCs, but without hard disks, and then follow the ltsp-pnp installation method: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp On 14/12/2015 10:11 πμ, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Hi folks, > > We have a language school and two labs with about 20 places each. We > have been working with an LTSP 4.2 for quite some time now, and it's > time to think about upgrading our terminals to be able to use LTSP 5. > Before I start looking for hardware, I would like to know where you > would draw the line between a thin and a fat client. > > On our current setup, I learned that transferring the graphics to the > terminals is a bottleneck. Another problem are programs like browsers > which tend to suck a lot of graphical data into the terminal's RAM > (large pictures for instance), so after some time the terminals start to > swap. You know what I mean... Another problem are terminals with no > modern graphics acceleration - like ours. > > We would like to use a current KDE desktop and up-to-date browser like > Firefox, Wine etc. So I thought it might be better to let the terminals > each have their own complete OS booting and use a common pool of > individual and public defaults from the server. Maybe just using the > binaries from the individual harddiscs, but deviating all other > directories to those on the server. > > But would I need LTSP for such a thing? Would that still be a fat > client, or: how do you define a fat client under LTSP 5? And would you > think thin clients would do? (Personally, I would prefer thin clients.) > > Thanks for any opinion :) > > Regards > Rolf > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
