[Thinlinc-technical] Support for Ubuntu 14.10 in upcoming ThinLinc 4.3.0?

[Lucas Migueles]

Interesting.

How do you do that, Bernd? What tools are you using?

Lucas

2014-10-29 6:04 GMT-03:00 Bernd Dammann <beda at dtu.dk>:

> You could split your setup into a desktop part, and an application part.
> We have done that for years, and this has given us a very stable
> environment.  Connecting to our ThinLinc setup, only the desktop runs on
> the TL servers - all applications get started on a cluster of Linux nodes,
> with the display set to the user's TL session.  And the OS on the cluster
> nodes doesn't need to be same as the one on the TL  nodes.  In fact, for
> many years (until last year) our TL nodes were based on Solaris SPARC,
> since we also had a tight integration with our Sun Ray setup - but all
> user applications have been running on different flavours of Linux since
> at least 2007.
>
> Other advantages are, that you can separate system maintenance that way,
> and you keep the load on the TL servers to a minimum.  And if a user's
> application slows down or crashes a node, it doesn't take down the desktop
> sessions of N other users.
>
> Regards,
> Bernd
>
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