localapps

[Luis Montes]

I see that too. I just wish that I had more RAM on the 40 or so t150s I 
got from disklessworkstations a couple of years ago.
They have 128 but I think they max out at 256. If I can get them to all 
to 512 it would be well worth it, I think.

The next problem will be to specify icons to launch local apps only on 
specific machines. I have about 30 newer thin clients with 800Mhz VIAs 
and 512M ram that I'd like to use localapps, but just those machines 
specifically for now.

Luis


rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> "Apps run where they should run."
>
>
> I can see the logic in that statement.
>
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Ron
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: localapps
> From: Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org>
> Date: Fri, November 07, 2008 3:56 pm
> To: Development discussion of K12Linux <k12linux-devel-list at redhat.com>
>
> Managing a bunch of fat clients is a lot more work than a bunch of thin 
> clients. I think a more accurate statement, as I was once told, would 
> be "Apps run where they should run."
>
> rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
>   
>> "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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