Desktop choice/performance

[Jack ODonnell]

World Computer Exchange installs "edubuntu-desktop" on stand-alone
computers that we send to classrooms in developing countries.  We do no
use LTSP.

In considering the upgrade to 12.04 from 10.04 as our standard OS, we
were concerned about how this would impact performance and the minimum
specs on our refurbished computers

We ran a comparison tests of performance with different desktops.  I
don't pretend that the measures are scientifically accurate but they
showed general trend that helped us decide

We will be using 12.04 with the LXDE desktop

See attached 
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Jack ODonnell
Chicago Coordinator
Content Project Manager
Regional Manager for Latin America
773 316 2944

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On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 01:20 -0700, Matt Johnson wrote:
> We are running LTSP on Ubuntu 10.04 across 64 workstations distributed across 8 classrooms and in one computer suite in a school in Hertfordshire, UK.
> 
> We are beginning to plan for our move to a fresh install of Edubuntu 12.04. I note that the Edubuntu screenshots page shows Unity, which we are keen to deploy, and then the more traditional desktop 'fallback' which is says is more suited to LTSP environments. This implies a performance hit for running Unity (2d?) in LTSP environments.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Matt
> 
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