Desktop choice/performance

[John Hupp]

I read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp and saw 
that it supports thin and fat clients, does not use a chroot, and 
prefers a single-NIC setup.  Nice.

But I didn't see anything there that gave any indication about client 
performance when comparing LTSP-PNP vs. the current version of LTSP5 in 
12.04.  I am especially interested in thin (very thin) client performance.

Anyone?

On 9/7/2012 6:14 AM, asmo.koskinen at arkki.info wrote:
>> What are folks' experiences of running Unity (2d?) versus the fallback
>> mode in an LTSP deployment? Have people experienced a performance hit from
>> moving from Gnome 2 on 10.04 to Unity 2d on 12.04? Realistically, should
>> we expect to be running fallback mode to achieve a similar level of
>> performance to our current install?
> I think is is not question about desktop environment (Unity 3D vs.
> LXDE/XFCE) but question about thin vs. fat client. You should go for fat
> client, if your desktop hardaware can do that. Fat client gives to you the
> best desktop performance whatever desktop you are using, even KDE can fly
> in fat client.
>
> Test Alkis' ltsp-pnp (coming to 12.10), if your network environment and
> needs are simple enough. It is awesome. I use it with Lubuntu. My PCs are
> very basic ones: P4/NVidia Vanta/512M(emory).
>
> If you can't go for fat client, then you have to test amd tweak and ask
> what users are thinking.
>
> So, I recommend something like Lubuntu/Xubuntu+ltsp-pnp/fat client. It
> gives best performane with media support (audio, video, voip etc).
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp
> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Comparision_between_LXDE_and_Xfce
> http://jonathancarter.org/2010/11/24/how-do-ltsp-fat-clients-work/
>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>
>

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