[K12OSN] LTSP, WINE, RDesktop & Sound
Casey Woods
casey.woods at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 00:25:29 UTC 2005
Encarta, and a couple of educational games. Nothing intense. Does it
make a difference if RDesktop runs as a local app?
David Trask wrote:
>"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
>Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 3:07 PM +0000 wrote:
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>>I did a search of the archives and found nothing so here it goes....
>>
>>We have approximately 120 Windows 2000 computers that are mostly Dell
>>Optiplexes. They have lots of memory and are running as well as can be
>>expected. The network is 100 Mbit. And we'll be connecting the switches
>>to the LTSP servers with Gigabit uplinks. So bandwidth shouldn't be an
>>issue. Servers will be dual processor Opterons with lots of RAM. So we
>>have lots of processing power.
>>
>>My concern is providing sound to the LTSP clients. And specifically for
>>providing sound for a few Windows applications that just won't go away.
>>What am I up against here?
>>
>>My options for running these Windows apps are either WINE or RDesktop w/
>>Windows Terminal Server.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Casey Woods
>>
>>
>
>We run rdesktop with Win 2003 terminal server....no sound as anything we
>need sound for is in Linux. We simply run M$ Office as another offering
>in Terminal Server. I have tried sound in rdesktop, but it's so slow that
>it's unusable. WINE may work better as the app will work on the LTSP
>server, but no promises. What are the programs that you need to run?
>
>David N. Trask
>Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>Vassalboro Community School
>dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
>(207)923-3100
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