Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mate vs Unity in "low graphics mode"

2016-08-17 Thread David Groos
Interesting, I assumed that the 1.14 would have more bug-fixes as this page seems to imply: http://mate-desktop.com/blog/2016-04-08-mate-1-14-released/ Thanks for sharing your perspective! David On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > On 17/08/2016 11:27 μμ, David Groos w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mate vs Unity in "low graphics mode"

2016-08-17 Thread David Groos
Hi Jigish Nice to see such activity for education. Looks like someone/s has put a lot of effort in loading up that image. For my use I'll actually be stripping off applications from the basic Mate iso. Looks like I can do a post 1.12 install of 1.14 with: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-de

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mate vs Unity in "low graphics mode"

2016-08-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
On 17/08/2016 11:27 μμ, David Groos wrote: > Hi Alkis, That settles it, Mate it is. Do I want 1.12 or the newer 1.14, > the former is what downloads from Mate's web page when I download the > arch64 version but there's an update, apparently: > https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/mate-desktop-114-for-xenia

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mate vs Unity in "low graphics mode"

2016-08-17 Thread Jigish Gohil
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:57 AM, David Groos wrote: > Hi Alkis, That settles it, Mate it is. Do I want 1.12 or the newer 1.14, the > former is what downloads from Mate's web page when I download the arch64 > version but there's an update, apparently: > https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/mate-desktop-114

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mate vs Unity in "low graphics mode"

2016-08-17 Thread David Groos
Hi Alkis, That settles it, Mate it is. Do I want 1.12 or the newer 1.14, the former is what downloads from Mate's web page when I download the arch64 version but there's an update, apparently: https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/mate-desktop-114-for-xenial-xerus/. Thanks, David On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mate vs Unity in "low graphics mode"

2016-08-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi David, I haven't tried the low graphics mode. I'm guessing that it won't be used at all in fat clients, since they run unity locally and not remotely. So the normal graphics mode will be used. It should help in thin clients, but I don't know how much, since it'll still be using the slow llvmp