[K12OSN] LTSP, WINE, RDesktop & Sound

[Petre Scheie]

(Dave, you're still double-posting, FYI.  Or perhaps that's intentional and you need it 
that way (?))

David Trask wrote:
> "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
> Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 3:07 PM +0000 wrote:
> 
>>I did a search of the archives and found nothing so here it goes....
>>
>>We have approximately 120 Windows 2000 computers that are mostly Dell 
>>Optiplexes.  They have lots of memory and are running as well as can be 
>>expected.  The network is 100 Mbit. And we'll be connecting the switches 
>>to the LTSP servers with Gigabit uplinks.  So bandwidth shouldn't be an 
>>issue.  Servers will be dual processor Opterons with lots of RAM.  So we 
>>have lots of processing power.
>>
>>My concern is providing sound to the LTSP clients.  And specifically for 
>>providing sound for a few Windows applications that just won't go away.  
>>What am I up against here?
>>
>>My options for running these Windows apps are either WINE or RDesktop w/ 
>>Windows Terminal Server.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Casey Woods
> 
> 
> We run rdesktop with Win 2003 terminal server....no sound as anything we
> need sound for is in Linux.  We simply run M$ Office as another offering
> in Terminal Server.  I have tried sound in rdesktop, but it's so slow that
> it's unusable.  WINE may work better as the app will work on the LTSP
> server, but no promises.  What are the programs that you need to run?
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100
> 
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