[SC.LUG] Software Freedom Day Results

[Lucy]

On 21/09/2008, Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Lucy wrote:
>
>  >  It didn't take people long to start playing games, like asteroids, and
>  >  running flash heavy websites on the machines. One of the few problems
>  >  we found was that Tux Racer does not play well with LTSP
>  >  (unsurprisingly) and slowed down all of the clients!
>
>
> That was me who tried tux racer ;-)
>  I'd tried crack attack and seen that xgl wasn't loading so I thought
>  tux racer would suffer a similar fate and not even start. However it locked
>  up the graphics and made things difficult for the other clients.

Thanks for the extra information. I didn't consider that it might be
an xgl issue.

>  If those machines are staying there I'd edit the menu to remove the
>  graphics intensive stuff otherwise someone else is going to try running it!

Yep, as soon as I get chance I'll be removing quite a number of
unnecessary applications from the server.

I hope you enjoyed the event anyway and I hope you can come along to
some of our meetings in future.

Lucy