# Source: desktop-autoloader # Package: desktop-autoloader # Versions: desktop-autoloader (0.0.4-1), desktop-autoloader (0.0.4-2), desktop-autoloader (0.0.4-3) # This Description is active # This Description is owned # Prioritize: 47 Description: Accelerate Diskless Workstation systems by pre-loading a dummy Desktop Session This package is for diskless Linux clients as you often find them in school class rooms running an LTSP based fat client environment. . The logon into and the initial session startup on such diskless workstations can be considerably slow, because all applications need to be fetched from one server hosting the fat clients' filesystem. . The situation gets worse, if 24 computers in the same class room get switched on simultaneously or the teacher tells the students to open the same application (e.g. Libreoffice) at the same time. . However, this issue only occurs to the first student using a diskless workstation that day. If the diskless machine is equipped with enough RAM, other students see all applications being launched within a couple of seconds. . Reason: once an application has been launched, it ends up in the diskless machine's filesystem cache in RAM. . So, this package pre-loads a desktop session of the admin's choice plus some extra popular applications. It does this before 7:30 in the morning, only. So, combine this package with Wake-On-LAN or an RTC Timer to make sure systems are booted before 7:30am. With such a setup in place, the diskless machines will have been prepared for work before the first students enter the class room. Description-da: Accelerate Diskless Workstation-systemer ved at forhåndsindlæse en tom skrivebordssession Denne pakke er for Linuxklienter uden disk, som du ofte finder dem i klasseværelser kørende på et LTSP-baseret miljø med tykke klienter. . Logind og opstartsssession på sådanne arbejdsstationer uden disk kan være ret så langsom, da alle programmer skal hentes fra en server med den tykke klients filsystem. . Situationen bliver værre hvis 24 computere i det samme klasseværelse bliver tændt samtidig eller læreren giver studenterne besked om at åbne det samme program (f.eks. LibreOffice) på samme tid. . Denne problemstilling opstår dog kun for den første student, som bruger en diskløs arbejdsstation den dag. Hvis den diskløse maskine er udstyret med nok RAM, vil andre studenter se alle programmer startet indenfor et par sekunder. . Årsag: Når et program er blevet startet, så ender det i den diskløse maskines mellemlager for filsystemet i RAM. . Så denne pakke indlæser på forhånd en skrivebordssession efter administratorens valg samt nogle ekstra populære programmer. Det gøres før klokken 7:30 om morgenen. Så ved at kombinere denne pakke med Wake-On-LAN eller en RTC Timer for at sikre, at systemerne er startet før 7:30. Med sådan en opsætning vil de diskløse maskiner være forberedt for arbejde før den første student møder i klasseværelset. # other Descriptions of the desktop-autoloader package with a translation in da: #