On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:30 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > 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. > > > > Thanks, Paul. Do you or others have experience mixing stable + backports with testing using pinning? I've heard some say that is the best of all worlds and others say it is a terrible idea because testing pulls in new libraries which can badly break packages in stable. Thanks - John
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