[K12OSN] I need help with an idea

[Brian Beck]

David Trask wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I need help with an idea.  With smbldap-installer pretty well set (don't
>worry we'll continue to keep it updated)....I'm searching for my next
>"big" thing.  My forte is documentation.  I'm thinking of trying to tackle
>local apps....in particular Firefox and hopefully the Flash plugin.  I've
>taken a peek at the how-to on the wiki at ltsp.org.  I briefly chatted
>with Chuck about possibly using Samba/LDAP instead of NIS and he seemed to
>indicate that this would be possible.  In fact I can see how much of the
>set up of local apps could probably be scripted.  My problem....I'm
>limited at the moment on test machines as I've deployed nearly everything
>I have.  I will dig one up, but could use some help figuring some of this
>stuff out.  Anyone successfully gotten local apps to run?  In
>particular....Firefox?  Anyone want to work with me on this?
>  
>
While this certainly sounds possible, the only thing I would be
concerned about is Client Memory.  128MB should be more than enough, and
even 64MB would avoid problems, but Firefox is very memory-intensive as
opposed to CPU-intensive, and if you're using older clients without much
RAM they could potentially bottleneck.