localapps

rmcdaniel at indata.us rmcdaniel at indata.us
Fri Nov 7 20:50:38 UTC 2008


"Localapps is the future"

If that is the case, why not just use fat clients (comptuers)?  I am a
huge advocate of centralized computing, especially in a school
environment...


Ron

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: localapps
From: "Odin_Nøsen" <odin at gnuskole.no>
Date: Fri, November 07, 2008 2:46 pm
To: Development discussion of K12Linux <k12linux-devel-list at redhat.com>

> launch firefox it will be faster. I tested this and found you need a
> min. of 512MB on the client to have firefox cached. I did not see any
> increase in launching firefox a second time with only 256MB.

In my experience 256MB is just enough to make firefox run without
swaping, but it's
running fine (5 sec startup on 900mhz klients).

I must agree about K12Linux been "slower" than K12LTSP 5.2EL. We could
run 40 thin
clients on 4GB RAM with K12LTSP, but with K12Linux you should run more
than 25 thin
clients on 8GB RAM. RAM is cheap, so the only problem is old cheap
servers that doesn't
support more than 4GB RAM. Flash also seems to demand more, but I think
that is linked
to flash movies and 25 pupils watching flash movies as the same time :-)
Localapps is
the future!


Odin

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