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Re: TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients

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Post by snadal » Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 6:29 AM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #19

snadal wrote: post #14

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 remember using XDMCP ~20 years ago for this (underpowered machine as thin-client to beefy server, with graphical login). Does LTSP have additional features or better performance?

LTSP 4 uses XDMCP as Login manager and GUI export.

LTSP Clients boot with PXE and get the root filesystem via NFS, then it uses XDMCP login screen.

AFAIK, LTSP 5 uses LDM instead of XDCMP.

Re: TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients

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Post by snadal » Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 6:37 AM UTC

gonzo wrote: post #18

girvo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

2.5gbps exists today. 10g switches are under $100/port now.

Can you point to any 10g switch on that price range? Last time I searched for there all were over $700 - $1000 USD.

Alternative was to use a 4 ports NIC with bonding but 10Gb will be far more easy and stable.

Re: TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients

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Post by Yuioup » Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 6:56 AM UTC

I would be nice if there was a video demonstrating the thin client capabilities of this. I for one would like to see the OpenGL in action (yes, show me games!).

Plus, which Pi is this made for? I am assuming the Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 (ARMv7). I have all 3 model B's so I'll check this out.

Re: TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients

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Post by aioprisan » Mon, Nov 28, 2016, 7:10 AM UTC

snadal wrote: post #22

gonzo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2.5gbps exists today. 10g switches are under $100/port now.

Can you point to any 10g switch on that price range? Last time I searched for there all were over $700 - $1000 USD. Alternative was to use a 4 ports NIC with bonding but 10Gb will be far more easy and stable.

Here's a good Reddit thread that I used in the past when I set up a 10gb switch a few years back, and it only cost me around $200: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/2s5x3s/10gb_switch...