[X2Go-User] X2Go vs. XRDP

[brian town]

The thin client point was only to express my setup as well and the findings
I had with x2go/VNC/NX/etc. I believe it to be more of a bandwidth issue,
as our bandwidth in our LAN is only giving out 2.3gb right now

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Walid MOGHRABI <w.moghrabi at servicemagic.eu
> wrote:

> Brian, I don't really understand your point about your thin clients, LTSP
> images and remote connection to RedHat VMs.
>
> From what I can tell, the lower spec thin clients we have are older Wyse
> celeron based with 1Gb of RAM.
> My thin client boot from LAN with the TCE-NG setup and simply download a
> 230MB OS image and run from it diskless.
> They start the X2Go client in display manager mode and eat about 512MB
> RAM, OS image included (running apps goes for about 200MB).
> Since it's direct X2Go connection, there is no local stuff, only remote
> and these low specs Thin Clients perform as good as the higher specs PCs we
> converted to Thin Clients and which are 4GB, Core i3/i5 and more ...
>
>
> Regards,
> Walid Moghrabi
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> ----- Mail original -----
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> De: "brian town" <briantownjr at gmail.com>
> À: "Daniel Lindgren" <bd.dali at gmail.com>
> Cc: "x2go-user" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Envoyé: Mardi 13 Juin 2017 15:57:57
> Objet: Re: [X2Go-User] X2Go vs. XRDP
>
>
> I agree with Walid about XRDP being super fast and snappy with low
> resource intensive desktops. It worked really well for me with a XFCE set
> up on one project I was working on. However both XRDP and X2GO could not
> provide a good visualization for my current project that has thin clients
> pulling down LTSP images. The LTSP desktop images are all low resource but
> we use them as a jumping point to connect to Red Hat VMs. The only
> connection method I found that could support a decent desktop experience
> for our users as with X11VNC + XDMCP. I went through xrdp/x2go/NX and even
> Horizon View and all had either poor performance or in the case of Horizon
> View were just not really meant for Linux yet (the support is pretty awful).
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Lindgren < bd.dali at gmail.com >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have used both xrdp and X2Go for a few years, just personal use, not
> professional/work related.
>
>
> I've recently upgraded to Debian 9 with KDE Plasma 5 and had some issues
> with X2Go, checked the wiki and found that Plasma 5 is unsupported at the
> moment. I researched alternatives and discovered ThinLinc.
>
>
> It's a commercial software, but free for home use up to 5 concurrent
> users. Works with Plasma 5 and performance is good, at least for my use
> case.
>
>
> When/if X2Go gains support for Plasma 5 I may go back, but for now I can't
> use it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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