Life after LTSP

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Asmo Koskinen
<asmo.koskinen at arkki.info> wrote:
> 15.11.2010 21:59, Jeff Wheeler kirjoitti:
>
>> http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/DRBL_LTSP/DRBL/02.png
>>
>> Thanks, this is rather interesting. :)
>
> For VDPAU (Lucid) you need some extra sources for fat client. Both DRBL
> and LTSP needs this.
>
> ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa
> ppa:rvm/mplayer
>
> With LTSP you can use thin, thin+localapps and fat clients. And you can
> use 64-bit environment in server side and 32-bit environment in chroot.
> LTSP is very flexibility that way.
>

Yes this is really a good advantage of LTSP fat clients.

> With DRBL you can't use thin clients or 64-bit environment in server.
> DRBL is just for fat clients and needs 32-bit environment in server.
>

DRBL does have a simple forwarded X connection ability using xdmcp but
it has no sound or local device support like LTSP.

> But after that both gives you same support for heavy GPU based programs.
>

Yes but it's not enough to measure one or two app performance on a
single client. Remote filesystem performance and scalability is also
important. It seems, the main difference (DRBL/LTSP) is the remote
filesystem mounting (nfs/sshfs) and LDM/NIS.