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Re: How to add options of desktop environments for diskless workstations?



> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:14:47PM +0200, roman.meier@gismap.ch wrote:
>> Building chroot with the default settings desktop=kde gives us
>> impressive results for the diskless workstations. They can handle kde
perfectly.
>
> Interesting. Could you please provide some client details (processor,
> speed, RAM)?
>
>> I think this recommendation to install with kernel param
>> 'desktop=lxde' is rather meant for thin client only installations and
>> not combinations of thin clients/diskless workstations.
>
> I guess this is very site specific; LXDE is supposed to work in more
> cases. (IIRC LTSP itself recommends MATE in the first place.)

Hi Wolfgang,

I get impressive results e.g. with my older dual core having 2gb RAM. I
think it could easily run smoothly with less but I haven?t tried this.

Is MATE also available for DebianEdu? If yes, what are your experiences?

Kind regards,
Roman


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