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As the site seems to be down, here's an alternative: http://www.raspbsd.org/
The Linux equivalent would be something like LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/)
As the site seems to be down, here's an alternative: http://www.raspbsd.org/
That's not really an alternative. The posted project is a thin client/server setup that just happens to target Raspberry Pi computers. The Linux equivalent would be something like LTSP ( http://www.ltsp.org/ )
What protocol is being used between the clients and the server? rPI's aren't too far off sunrays which worked very well, but I think ALP is prop? I've not had a play with Spice, shurely this isn't just X forwarding over SSH?
For a long time, a 2013 i7 CPU with 32 GiB RAM running LTSP over ESXi was more than enough for intensive use of 5 thin clients.
We've recently switched to a more powerful server (refurbished 48 AMD cores / 256 GB RAM) running Proxmox and despite some issues that still needs minor tweaking, I am very happy with it.
The only gray area, and the reason I am always looking for alternatives to LTSP (NX2Go is the strongest candidate), is the huge bandwidth used by LTSP: 8 Thin clients needs a sustained 600 Mbps. I'm afraid scaling over 10 / 15 workstations will require expensive network equipment but graphic user experience is near native in all aspects.
I highly recommend to anyone that is in doubt of using LTSP or any other thin client setup in production, give it a try because it actually worth it in all aspects.
I think http://www.virtualgl.org/About/Introduction (used in this product) is actually more interesting - has anyone used it?
Our company has been running LSTP on commodity hardware since 2013 for a development team, and I am truly happy with the result. For a long time, a 2013 i7 CPU with 32 GiB RAM running LTSP over ESXi was more than enough for intensive use of 5 thin clients. We've recently switched to a more powerful server (refurbished 48 AMD cores / 256 GB RAM) running Proxmox and despite some issues that still needs minor tweaking,…
Hopefully, that won't be the case soon! [0] I've no idea how far away the tech is for production use, but I'm quite excited by it myself.
Our company has been running LSTP on commodity hardware since 2013 for a development team, and I am truly happy with the result. For a long time, a 2013 i7 CPU with 32 GiB RAM running LTSP over ESXi was more than enough for intensive use of 5 thin clients. We've recently switched to a more powerful server (refurbished 48 AMD cores / 256 GB RAM) running Proxmox and despite some issues that still needs minor tweaking,…
> scaling over 10/15 will require expensive network equipment Hopefully, that won't be the case soon! [0] I've no idea how far away the tech is for production use, but I'm quite excited by it myself. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5GBASE-T_and_5GBASE-T
Our company has been running LSTP on commodity hardware since 2013 for a development team, and I am truly happy with the result. For a long time, a 2013 i7 CPU with 32 GiB RAM running LTSP over ESXi was more than enough for intensive use of 5 thin clients. We've recently switched to a more powerful server (refurbished 48 AMD cores / 256 GB RAM) running Proxmox and despite some issues that still needs minor tweaking,…
I think http://www.virtualgl.org/About/Introduction (used in this product) is actually more interesting - has anyone used it?