Re: Setup used in Greek Schools

2015-06-10 Thread David Groos
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

Re: Setup used in Greek Schools

2015-06-10 Thread Adam Fischer
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

Re: Setup used in Greek Schools

2015-06-10 Thread 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 significantly improve performance during those times when some clients were