On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Charles MacDonald wrote:
After all that the chalenge. Is their anywhere she can go and get a
pre-running system with KUbuntu, or Suse. (She is used to KDE by Now,
and when I tried a ubuntu live disk she found the Gnome Desktop
distastful.)
Hi Charles. It seems you already have a working Suse box, why not try
using that? Remember, X is network transparent. Using either a true thin
client[1], or a *nix/MS-Win box running appropriate software you can both
access the same system at the same time and get great performance.
A lot of people dismiss this idea with complaints about performance. A
lot of people make these comments with little or no actual experience of
using an XTerminal. I've been using XTerminals on my desktop for about 10
years. With modern systems (especially with a good amount of ram) only
the greatest of power users will throttle a box. The rest of the userbase
will not notice any performance hit.
Interestingly I ran a box with the Xserver running locally on my desktop
for the first time in many years recently (not my choice). I found this
was slower due to a performance bottleneck with the Xserver competing for
resources on the workstation. I'm moving back to a thin client at that
location as soon as possible.
What I'm trying to emphasise is there seems to be an implicit assumption
that X users require X workstations. Not so, try thin client - it's
cheaper, requires less management overhead and actually performs better in
many cases.
If you want to discuss thin client with me more I'm happy to go into
further detail.
[1] These days they're mostly just Linux boxes anyway.
Cheers,
Rob
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