2009/1/15 Matt Sealey
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Matt Sealey
wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Rob OpenSuSE
wrote: 2009/1/15 Matt Sealey
: That spec is absolutely bull. There is no way LTSP runs in that with Xubuntu OR openSUSE 11.x.
No it'd be an LTSP set up, not Xubuntu. Reviews of LTSP have emphasised that it runs on older otherwise unusable hardware, so your findings are suprising.
FYI, the real Edubuntu LTSP requirements;
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToCookEdubuntu/Chapters/HardwareRequire...
Note; 48MB of RAM in the client about gets you an xterm. Firefox etc. run very badly in a remote session because of the way it caches bitmaps. OpenOffice or any other office client is just as bad. The LTSP page mentions watching multimedia clips - ha. Good luck.
That page is inline with the previous "low end graphical station",
they recommend a low end machine for it.
Recommended specs
400Mhz with 128MB ram and PXE boot capabilities.
That's more like it and more plausible, so KDE4 likes at least 384 MiB
really, 38Xfce/LXDE need about 256, and LSTP 128.
You're talking about a project that has been going for years, as an
independant distro, has been reviewed frequently and spawned
educational thin client projects, as a way of using old machines.
400Mhz plus 128 MiB was a standard machine in mid 2000. If it was
not lighter than Xfce/LXDE locally, they'd loose one of the reasons to
use it.
2009/1/15 Matt Sealey
That spec is absolutely bull. There is no way LTSP runs in that with Xubuntu OR openSUSE 11.x.
Rather suggested that you thought, that you needed to run a desktop locally.
2009/1/15 Matt Sealey
Also just an example. LTSP is one place we would have liked to push these boards but the system requirements were still way too high simply because of the architecture of LTSP.
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