On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Rob OpenSuSE
2009/1/15 Matt Sealey
: For a 128 MiB RAM board, just selecting the default automatic configuration, is unlikely to be optimal. You mentioned LTSP for instance, so the application selection would be different from a stand alone machine.
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.
I'm personally more used to thin clients running on top of Citrix
Metaframe, or VMWare ESX where all they have to do is connect an RDP
client - LTSP is more like running a full, heavyweight distribution
over NFS and the only benefit is lack of disks. You still need a ton
of memory (128MB is supposed to be the minimum) and a decent graphics
adapter, and enough power to run a lot of things natively, which
semi-defeats the object of having thin clients in the first place as a
cost-saving measure, although it DOES make the server side much, much
cheaper.
As an example of the whole squashfs argument, KIWI-LTSP also builds
squashfs images for the LTSP chroot :D
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Matt Sealey