LTSP testing in Jaunty - how fat is local apps?

[Krsnendu dasa]

Which windows programs do you run using wine? Once you have installed wine
as a local app, does that mean all programs installed under it also run as
local apps?

2009/3/29 Reiner Schmid <reischmid at gmx.de>

>  Hello,
>
> I've found fatclient to be sufficient on 800mhz + 300mb+ (ram more
> important than cpu)
>
>
>
>  I can confirm this (ram more important) .
>
> Testing with my clients some weeks ago : CPU  1GHz and 512 MB are enough to
> work fine as a (nubae) fat client.  (With 256 ram it was not possible in a
> good way)
>
> But in my classroom now I use a Intrepid-ltsp with local apps and the help
> from "GetMoreFromLocalApps"
> see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GetMoreFromLocalApps
>
> localapps are : firefox vlc wine and the games "lbreakout2 pingus fillets"
> It is very easy and fast to install a new localapp and you have access to
> /home instead of /home/logged_in_user (<- last one I noticed testing
> jaunty-ltsp, only access to home/logged_in_user)
> So I can use a folder named /home/wine for wine-windows-software where the
> localapp "wine" and all clients could access to.
>
> With openoffice - I think- it is no problem to let it run on the server.
>
> Reiner Schmid
>
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>  On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, graydebowen at tiscali.co.uk<graydebowen at tiscali.co.uk> <graydebowen at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>  Lets see if I have go this as I fancy a go, assuming Ubuntu 9 is out at
> the end of April, not long to wait.
>
> Jaunty is Ubuntu 9, I an running LTSP on 8.10 and trying the Nubae fat
> client approach.  This works but HIGHFAT is too much for the 2.4Ghz 256
> MB clients,
>
>
>
>  Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti:
>
>
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>  OK. I'll do ltsp-localapps later today.
>
>
>  I did that with VLC and AVI file.
>
>
>  // I open this file on the LTSP server and make sure these lines are
> set as below
>
>
>  root at ubuntu-ltsp5:~# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf
> [default]
> LOCAL_APPS_MENU = True
> LOCAL_APPS_MENU_ITEMS = vlc
>
>
>  // vlc on the client image is installed and owned by root
> //Is vlc on the image from the vanilla image or did you chroot to the
> image and install it?
>
>
>  root at ubuntu-ltsp5:~# ls -al /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/applications/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1463 2009-02-25 17:50 vlc.desktop
> root at ubuntu-ltsp5:~#
>
>
>
>  //On the server vlc is PID 8448
>
>
>  root at ubuntu-ltsp5:~# ps ax | grep vlc
>  8448 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep vlc
> root at ubuntu-ltsp5:~#
>
>
>  //This looks like a fat client node because we are @ ltsp201
> //not sure what line 1 of grep has pulled up but line 2 shows a
> differnent PID for vlc
> // a df on the client would be interesting - what is mounted where?
>
>
>  root at ltsp201:~# ps ax | grep vlc
>  4705 tty7     S      0:00 su - user-ltsp5 -c LANG= DISPLAY=:7
> XAUTHORITY=/var/run/ldm-xauth-hkVTMsjGK  vlc
>  4707 tty7     Sl     0:20 vlc
>  4761 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep vlc
> root at ltsp201:~#
> http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5/Jaunty_Beta_Eee_Local-
>
>
>  apps_VLC_01.png
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>  http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5/Jaunty_Beta_Eee_Local-
>
>
>  apps_VLC_02.png
>
>
>  ----
>
> I did have NAT problem (because I have only one nic) when I did try
>
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>  to
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>  listen streaming radio with localapps VLC. But that is just me,
> localapps works just fine in Beta.
>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>
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