[K12OSN] TuxType on Clients

Doug Simpson simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tue Dec 7 13:53:11 UTC 2004


Is your network switched or hubs and is it 100MB or faster to the desktop?

Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Debbie Schiel wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> A couple Year 7 students (age 12/13) tried out TuxType2 on two clients 
> yesterday and they loved it!!
> 
> Now today I've setup another mini-trial for Year 2 students. Six clients 
> with TuxType and it is soooo slow... They're working on the 'hard' level 
> already, it's chugging along so slowly. I thought that our big hefty 
> server would have been able to handle this.
> 
> I'm using k12ltsp 4.0.1 Fedora Core1 - server is Acer Altos G700 with 
> about 2GB of memory (I think...), the clients are PIIIs with 127MB ram.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to speed things up - or do I just have to 
> avoid using tuxtype?? (a big shame as it is a great piece of software!)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Debbie
> 
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