On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 01:49:09PM +0200, roman.meier@gismap.ch wrote: > What is the default content of The LTSP chroot? Is there documentation on > this? The chroot is built at installation time and has the same desktop environment as the related server. > Is the LTSP chroot built with Plasma only by default? Yes. But see the manual: it recommends to use the kernel param 'desktop=lxde' instead of the default 'desktop=kde' if LTSP is intended to be used. > The NBD image file should be as small as possible to be easy on transfer > times, network usage, server load, local RAM usage, etc., right? I guess disk space and NBD build/update time is the main reason. > Does it therefore make sense to study how desktop environment additions > affect the size of the NBD image? Out of my head: Xfce in addition to kde consumes not that much more, LXDE adds more than Xfce. While choice is good, each environment adds own programs for the same purpose; this might confuse users. Wolfgang
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