Desktop choice/performance

[Matt Johnson]

Thanks all for the replies. I've started to experiment with the environments mentioned to evaluate the various offers.

Much obliged.
 
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Matt




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> From: "Rippl, Steve" <rippls at woodlandschools.org>
>To: Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 7 September 2012, 16:33
>Subject: Re: Desktop choice/performance
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>We experimented with the Lubuntu/LXDE desktop under 12.04 LTSP and it was great in terms if it's small resource requirements, however the Xubuntu/XFCE proved more useful to use because of it's greater configurability, we lock down the desktop to a considerable degree for the students and XFCE lets us do that while still having reasonable low hardware requirements.
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>On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>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.
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>>Matt
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