comparison

[Ray Garza]

Greetings everyone,

I've been comparing Edubuntu 7.04 with K12LTSP 6.0 here at the Library where I 
work. This is not a full comparison but just just some observations that I 
have noticed.

First of all both Servers are identical (same make and model - Dell PowerEdge 
2950 w/4 Gig RAM, 2 - Dual Core Intel Processors, 15k rpm SCSI RAID drives) 
and I used the same PC's on the floor. I just swap ethernet cables ard reboot 
the PC's. 

On the Edubuntu server I only ran the updates after installing system.
On the K12LTSP system I have done the updates and pounded on the system to get 
sound working on the older PC's but cannot get the sound working on the new 
Dell Optiplex 620 pc's


Booting to the logon screen is about the same. 
-- Edubuntu: 1 minute and 33 seconds 
-- K12LTSP: 1 minute and 42 seconds

Going from the Logon screen to the Desktop, K12 is a lot faster.
-- Edubuntu: 17s
-- K12LTSP: 6s

Playing Tux Type w/sound is a lot faster on the K12 system
-- Edubuntu system: Tux Type was very slow even at its Highest level 
(Commander w/short words)
-- K12LTSP system: Tux Type played just fine

Recognizing and installing sound was hassle free on the Edubuntu system
-- It even got sound working on the Dell Optiplex PC's

Comparisons were done on old Intel Celeron 400 MHz PC's with 64 Megs of RAM 
with a boot floppy from Rom-o-matic. The Desktop Manager was Gnome for both 
systems.

I tried Edubuntu with more ram (132 Megs of RAM) and got the same results.

Another thing that I noticed is that I can't (or couldn't figure out) change 
the logon screen on the client PC. On the K12 system I would goto 
System-->Administrator-->Logon Window and make the changes there but it 
doesn't work on Edbuntu.

The Dell Optiplex 620 works fine under Edbuntu. Sound works on the 
Applications that have sound and Tux Type or Tux Math work fine. Maybe I'll 
use Edbuntu for the lab with the new Dell's and K12 with the older stuff. I 
would like to run both with one system.

Any comments? Anthing I can do to get Tux Type and Math to run at it's normal 
level? I imagine that if I switch to NIC that can boot off the Network some 
of the sluggishness will go away.

Thanks,

Ray Garza
Coordinator of Computer Services
Speer Memorial Library