Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP server questions

[Alkis G. <al...@gm...>]

Στις 29/06/2012 09:57 μμ, ο/η Derek Schuurman έγραψε:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have been using LTSP for a school and library computer lab of roughly
> 35 clients. For the most part, LTSP has worked well, but we have had
> some issues with lag when many students are using the lab. This is
> particularly the case when users are running flash-based multi-media pages.
>...
>
> 2) We have tried running client browsers as a local app - this greatly
> helped with the lag issue, but we ran into complications with "helper
> apps" ie. when users click on a .doc or .pdf file, the browser attempts
> to launch the helper apps locally (LibreOffice or PDF readers etc.) and
> fails. We dont want to install every possible helper app as a local app.


If you use LTSP fat clients, then all apps, even helper apps, open normally.
Then you don't even need a good server, as fat clients use no server 
CPU/RAM, but only its disk.
So you could easily netboot 35 clients with a much lighter server than 
the one you already have.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp