[K12OSN] A few ~$200 thin clients to try

[Bill Moseley]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:

> I tested it myself on Ubuntu 7.10 with LTSP 5 and found the boot
> times to be about 2.5 minutes if I remember correctly.  I don't have
> my notes in front of me, but I remember performance being terrible
> with X over ssh.  When I disabled that using DIRECTX=True, it got
> better but it was still pretty slow for basic things like screen
> refreshes when minimizing/maximizing/moving a window, or scrolling a
> spreadsheet.

Interesting.  I'm asking more out of ignorance just because (when
not using SSH) I would think it would be the same X protocol in both
versions of LTSP.

I know this has been discussed at times before, but I'm also curious
why Nomachine's NX technology to reduce bandwidth needs would not be a
win?  Is the speed-up of using NX not that significant over a LAN?


> Of course, my requirements might be different than yours.  I'd
> recommend trying one out.  They're cheap enough.  Just don't buy a
> ton of them until you've tried it on LTSP 5.

That's the plan -- but I do want to try a few more powerful units to
start with.  On the other hand if $120 units are usable then that's a
nice savings.

Thanks very much for you tips, Rob.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org