[K12OSN] Project MueKow

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:01, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Les,
> 
> At first, it felt like we were arguing about this, but as we go through
> this, it's clear to me that we are exactly on the same page.

If I didn't make it clear at first, what I'd like to see is the LTSP
startup grafted in as an option in what could also be a fat-client
network boot as mostly already done in the fedora stateless project
and knoppix.  Given network authentication and home dirs for the
fat clients, that covers the extremes for slow/fast clients and
provides most of what you need to run local apps on the thin clients.

> We'll need to develop the app-launching glue, to run some stuff
> locally, and some stuff remotely, but we need that anyway.

There is really a lot of glue missing to easily run apps on
arbitrary servers.  You should be able to cover local apps with
remote desktop, server apps with local desktop, or remote
desktop with different remote app server in some general way
but that can be added later.   The tricky part is that you need
to know something about the client capacity/load to know if
it would be better to run an app locally or on a server. 

My guess is that OOo would be better locally on a P500/256M and
up box than shared with 30 others on a dual 3Ghz xeon with 4 gigs
ram although startup might be slower.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com