John A. Sullivan III schreef: > Hello, all. We have been struggling over whether we wanted to offer > Ubuntu or Fedora desktops to our users via X2Go. However, as we > struggle in that debate, we are unexpectedly beginning to entertain the > idea of using Debian instead.
I think that's a good idea. There is much more experience with Debian then with Fedora. And about Ubuntu I would say to try this: aptitude search '?and(~s universe,~i)' ... and you will see you are using many packages without security support. I think that's maybe sometimes OK, but not for a thinclient server. > May I ask what your experiences have been? I have some years experiences with Debian thinclients in small organisations, and I can tell you it works fine. I have used FreeNX (with ThinStation) and now a little bit X2go. Biggest problem was always flash, the quality of flash in a bigger format is not good enough in my opinion and it can slow-down a user session. Another point is to connect devices to clients. That's not always easy. > What are your preferred desktop clients and why? If Debian, is it > stable + backports or testing? I have experiences with Debian stable and oldstable. I have heard X2go works fine with testing. I use sometimes backports, e.g. for OpenOffice. Always running testing is not a good idea in my opinion, it changes to much. But you can do it for a short time. > We are looking at supporting potentially many thousands of these > desktops. Thanks - John With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ _______________________________________________ X2go-dev mailing list X2go-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev