On 2015-11-09, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
> server spin "maybe you are using the wrong operating system" and frankly
> for schools you typically use thin-cients one machine
>
Unfortunatelly recent desktop environments require OpenGL. Recent web
pages require hardware-accelareted video decoding. Not so recent widget
toolkits started to use pixmaps instead of X server-side rendering. Users
want to use sound output and USB devices.

This makes thin clients really hard to implement. Especially if all the
network-oriented features Linux deskop had are becoming obsolete.

What could work is a diskless thick client. But these old computers
usually have 100-Mbps NIC. That's 5 times slower than local ATA disk.
This does not matter when everything is loaded, but it hurts when
starting programs. Especially in classes where all students log in and
to the same stuff at the same time.

-- Petr

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