Am 12.06.2012 17:39, schrieb David Groos:
...
If your clients are beefy enough then I would go with fat clients. If
they are so-so I would go with localapps and if they are marginal I
would go with thin clients.
beefy > P4 2.4 GHz with 1 gig RAM
so-so > P4 1.6 GHz with 512 MB RAM
marginal > P3 or even P2 I have heard.
[All Edubuntu users: would you give the same cut-off points? What should
we publish as our recommendations?]
I think these specs are too high for thin clients.
I have never used fat clients, but for thin clients you can still use
just about anything down to P1 and less - without 3D stuff (e.g. Google
Earth, Neverball, Penguin Planet Racer).
I still use thin clients with a AMD Geode 500 MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM.
These work with screens up to 1600x1200 pixels. On a 100Mb/s network,
this is enough to watch small videos, but not full screen. They are good
enough for most things but marginal with large documents. E.g. large
PDFs with hi-res pictures or very long web pages with hundreds of
pictures will cause the client system to freeze occasionally. One of our
thin clients has 512 MB RAM and here these problems almost never occur.
Enabling Network-Swap helps a lot.
Cheers, Theo Schmidt
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