You know, this kind of info is not only useful as we implement LTSP, it's
also useful as we advocate for LTSP/open source with school/district IT
departments. Thanks for always sharing the work of the Greek Schools.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:05 AM Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> On 12/06/2015 06:16
On 12/06/2015 06:16 μμ, Job Cacka wrote:
Years ago, we used 64MB of RAM per thin client connection as a rule of
thumb for calculating RAM. So if your class size is 25 thin clients you
would want 64 MB * 25 = 1600 MB or 1.56 GB. I think this rule of thumb
is old however. We were using LTSP 5 on Ub
Subject: Re: Setup used in Greek Schools
Thanks all for weighing in. I didn't know about the role of caching for root
file system (i.e. /) in LTSP but it makes complete sense why /home should get
the ssd love not the root which I had supposed. I'm now questioning if the 4
gigs of RAM t
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:04 AM Alkis Georgopoulos
wrote:
>
> > Finally:
> > --What's a way/s I can contribute back to your/our efforts of
> > ubuntu/ltsp in ed? I saw this page:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/sch-scripts/+question/228810 but it's not
> > too current.
>
> Most of the informat
Thanks all for weighing in. I didn't know about the role of caching for
root file system (i.e. /) in LTSP but it makes complete sense why /home
should get the ssd love not the root which I had supposed. I'm now
questioning if the 4 gigs of RAM that I used for the "teacher computer" in
my classroom
2015-06-11 8:03 GMT+03:00 Alkis Georgopoulos :
> On 10/06/2015 05:31 μμ, David Groos wrote:
>
>> Thanks Alkis for this information!
>>
>> Questions:
>> --I could put 2 hard drives on the classroom server and install the
>> system on one HD and /home on another HD. Seems like that would
>> signific
On 10/06/2015 05:31 μμ, David Groos wrote:
Thanks Alkis for this information!
Questions:
--I could put 2 hard drives on the classroom server and install the
system on one HD and /home on another HD. Seems like that would
significantly improve performance during those times when some clients
were
Hi David,
If boot time is a concern, what I have been doing with both LTSP setups
and stand-alone workstations is use an SSD and mount / to it, and use a
big HD and mount /home to it (sometimes /var as well). Alternatively, I
sometimes mount just /boot to the SSD instead.
If you don't use a
Thanks Alkis for this information!
Based on what I now know, I'll...
--Continue with ltsp-pnp, all clients FAT.
--Give 14.04 a try with Unity/Gnome/Gnome-flashback/Mate and do some simple
boot-time benchmarking.
--Read up on flow control and do some experiments using the Epoptes
benchmarking tool
Hi David, sorry but I don't have the time to write an extensive how-to
(I already maintain one in Greek :)), so I'll only mention a few tips:
* We're still using Ubuntu 12.04.x because we have extremely varying
hardware, so some schools need the old Xorg and kernel from 12.04.1,
while other sc
I'm thinking that there are more people than just myself who would like to
know this info so am asking here. Right, Alkis, you are probably the
knowledge font here! Basically, what's the ltsp-pnp lab setup for next
school year in the Greek Schools?
I'm looking for a (hopefully quick-booting) moder
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