Hi, trying to get a certain HP ThinClient to work with Debian Edu, I found out a problem about Java applications: Running java apps like http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Circuit_Construction_Kit_DC_Only on thinclients is a pain. It's so not performing at all, dragging objections or having animations running is worse than slow motion. It didn't matter which xserver I used - vesa, via, nv - they behaved all the same. Now the joke comes: using the thinclient as a diskless workstation makes the java app run perfectly smooth, but because it's a real thinclient and hence low on performance, the boot process took very long, apps took very long to show up, and playing youtube didn't nearly work fluently. So I can choose between a very slow diskless workstation with good java performance, or a fast thinclient with very slow java performance. Using xmdcp instead of ssh didn't make a difference. Any ideas? I thought of giving ltsp's localapps feature a try, but so far I have no idea how it works. If the way of access is tc -> ltspserver -> tc, it definetely won't help. It would also be good to have others try the application above and report how it's working. I just posted to debian-java@l.d.o about this problem, but without the thinclient-vs-disklessworkstations part. I'm rather desperate by now - having tried almost everything I can think of. LTSP localapps and x2go are the two things on my mind I haven't tested yet. Greetings, -- .''`. Philipp Huebner <debalance@debian.org> : :' : pgp fp: 6719 25C5 B8CD E74A 5225 3DF9 E5CA 8C49 25E4 205F `. `'` HP: http://www.debalance.de, Skype: philipp-huebner `- ICQ: 235-524-440, Jabber: der_schakal@jabber.org
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