Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 64.126.166.170]
on November 07, 2007 04:28 PM
You might be surprised at how well "heavyweight" environments work in a thin client network -- even when the server itself isn't terribly powerful.
You are correct that lithe software loads and runs faster, but another factor is "load once, run many times." Four or five sessions of KDE or Gnome, and huge apps like Firefox or Open Office, load a lot of libraries once in that sort of environment...it isn't quite like adding the machine resource requirements of five separate thick client sessions and piling them all together on one overworked terminal server machine.
The thin client desktops of course "don't care," if they run as Xterminals. It's really no more work for an old 486 or first generation Pentium do provide a console to a remotely executed KDE session than it is to use Xfce.
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Re: Lightweight Window Managers
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 64.126.166.170] on November 07, 2007 04:28 PMYou are correct that lithe software loads and runs faster, but another factor is "load once, run many times." Four or five sessions of KDE or Gnome, and huge apps like Firefox or Open Office, load a lot of libraries once in that sort of environment...it isn't quite like adding the machine resource requirements of five separate thick client sessions and piling them all together on one overworked terminal server machine.
The thin client desktops of course "don't care," if they run as Xterminals. It's really no more work for an old 486 or first generation Pentium do provide a console to a remotely executed KDE session than it is to use Xfce.
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