From: Eddie B. Yanguas-J. <v21...@gm...> - 2012-12-19 03:45:20
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I want to Thank everyone who participated in this thread. The information is exactly what I was in search of. Rgrds, v21networks On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:27 PM, James Linder <ja...@ti...> wrote: > > On 19/12/2012, at 2:18 AM, lts...@li...wrote: > > >>>> A great deal of the Linux Distros are becoming too heavy. > >>>> Which is the lightest and offer the most in > >>>> terms of scalability, support and deployment in anyones' opinion? > >>> Debian + LXDE, I think. Debian support (almost) every arch. And LXDE is > >>> one of the lightest DE. > >>> > >>> http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto > >>> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian > >> I use LTSP-PNP (Ubuntu 12.04 + LXDE). Here is something about DEs, same > >> laptop as a fat client, memory 1 GB. > >> > >> > >> Lubuntu 21% > >> > >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/LUBUNTU_01.png > >> > >> MATE 25% > >> > >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/MATE_01.png > >> > >> Xubuntu 26% > >> > >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/XUBUNTU_01.png > >> > >> Gnome Classic 32% > >> > >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/GNOME-CLASSIC_01.png > >> > >> Unity 39% > >> > >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/UBUNTU_01.png > >> > >> Kubuntu 58% > >> > >> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/KUBUNTU_01.png > >> > >> > >> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. > > Aiming for a light, capable, well-supported balance, I've been working > > with Lubuntu + LTSP and now LTSP-PNP. At the performance level, this > > choice was not based on any systematic benchmarking but on some > > selective testing. I would be interested in knowing if someone has > > compared that to another contender like Deb If you ian + LTSP. > > > > I also looked at Alt Linux. I did not find any distro with lower memory > > requirements than this. But development has been patchy, and when I > > looked at it 6 months ago it needed a big push to become current again, > > and it would also need more language support for development work. (A > > lot of the documentation and a bit of the interface is in Russian, > > though Michael Shigorin, one of the pillars of that project, has > > excellent English). > > The question is muddied so the answers are muddied. > What is a light-distro. If you are talking server then why? You need lots > of RAM for the clients, disk is cheap, so this is not an area of concern. > If you are talking clients then choose a distro (eg I use ubuntu 10.01) > that suits, use a desktop that suits eg lxde and problem solved for ever. > The only time you ever need to consider upgrading the clients is when you > want more features than offered by the distro you started with. > I don't use media or sound on my clients, they are perfect forever (where > forever is indeterminate and long) > If you are talking FAT clients then again it is because you want > nice-things. > > So I guess the answer is choose your features - heavy-distro mix ratio. > There is nothing to be gained from "I want all the nice things" on the > "crappiest low end clients". > I use the latest distros with the crappiest hardware (LX geode processor > with 128M ram) and all is sweet. > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial > Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support > Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services > Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > |