Re: [PLUG] Meeting Topic Request

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

uhm. are you sure? it's my recollection that LTSP uses x forwarding- that's why it makes then thin clients- they don't even need hard drives. it loads it all in ram and processor from the network. VNC needs some sort of client installed.
also, VNC is:
-slower
-less secure
-more taxing on system resources
than LTSP

but i was talking about clustering anyways, not terminal services. ;)

On 10/21/07, Antony P Joseph <antony@panathara.org> wrote:

Hi

   There are VNC viewers running on 6W  fanless boxes, wyses, linutop,
etc the list goes one. LTSP needs capable workstation to run X-server.
VNC doe not need that. That is the difference.

With regards
Antony
Brent Saner wrote:
> here's a neat idea, kind of a compromise between individual systems
> and a single shared system...
>
> set up a full cluster, and then turn THAT into a multi-user system.
>
> "why would i do that instead of just having the individual
> workstations?" you might say.
> well, the advantage of this is load-balancing- it'd pool all the
> resources of x amount of boxes together. so if you have, say, five
> boxes and only one user on (because, say, it's 3am or something) then
> the resources of all five boxes are available to the user independent
> of where he signs in. if you have three users on at one time and five
> boxes clustered, you still have an advantage because each user
> (assuming they're all doing the same amount of processor expense) get
> an extra 33.33% of a box extra.
> (granted, all of this is not completely accurate and not exact, but
> it's a simple example of the power of load-balancing clusters and the
> possible implementation in a multi-user system)
>
> On 10/21/07, *Antony P Joseph* < antony@panathara.org
> <mailto:antony@panathara.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>         I am not sure whether LTSP  do the sound redirection either
>     because
>     the program is running in the server accessing servers sound card.
>     X-protocol does not support "sound" redirection. If the LTSP supports
>     sound redirection, it must be outside of X-protocol. I do not find any
>     problem in extending that outside protocol to VNC.
>
>     If you are not able to find any software for redirection, Bluetooth
>     speakers or earphones connecting to the server will solve the problem
>     provided you are with in the Bluetooth distance range.
>
>     With regards
>     Antony
>     Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
>     > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Antony P Joseph wrote:
>     >
>     >>     There is a fouth option
>     >>         VNC (a variation of thin computing, easy to configure
>     compared
>     >> to LTSP)
>     >>
>     >
>     > VNC is easier, but doesn't do sound.  Otherwise, it's
>     requirements & pros/cons
>     > are similar to LTSP.
>     >
>     >
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