Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread Mike Biancaniello
When a user logs in from a thin client, it is as if he/she is logging directly into the server.  Any user accts/home dirs that exist on the server are accessed via thin client, so it never matters which client a student uses.  You can lock down a good amount and you just do it on the server.  Th

Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread David Groos
Building on what Mike says, I first used Edubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) with thin clients. The clients were P3's @900 MHz (I believe was the speed--and 256-384 Megs RAM) and the server a Dual Core Xeon @ 2.0 GHz, I think, and with 3 Gig RAM and RAID 5. Things worked great until I used Flash or even wor

Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread Giacomo Trovato
Hi All, I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school. I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the web with Firefox (and Flash) they sometimes hanged. If you need surfing and office applications (OpenOffice Java based) you need a lot of RAM. I have solved all my

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Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread Quynh Vu Do
Hi, 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato > Hi All, > > I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school. > I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the web with > Firefox (and Flash) they sometimes hanged. > I had the same problem. It was solved by setting Firefox to run as

Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Doyle
On 05/21/2012 09:00 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato > > > Hi All, > > I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school. > I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the > web with Firefox

Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

2012-05-21 Thread Giacomo Trovato
Hi All, I have not configured locall applications since my thin clients are very poor: Geode 500 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM without disk. They are Alix3d3 (http://pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm). 2012/5/21 Richard Doyle : > On 05/21/2012 09:00 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato >