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Re: [PLUG] Meeting Topic Request
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Hi
My mistake, I thought clustering and terminal services are the same!
With regards
Antony
Brent Saner wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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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