I appreciate the feed back. The project is for a school. They seemed to like the idea of the compact size of a thin client. After showing them the way video plays, they were sure that would not work. I recommended a fanless unit , like a Zotac box that they could strapped on the back of a monitor. Seems like that would work, but they were hoping to see how VDs would work before making a decision. On 12/6/2012 1:53 PM, Eric Crist wrote: > maybe virtual desktops aren't what you're really looking for? those connections tend to be compressed, and the compression of the video, plus the compression of the remote desktop connection correlates to shit video playback. couple that with added latency, and it's going to be a bad experience. This isn't a hard and fast rule, but you need to consider how things will be used. > > ----- > Eric F Crist > > > > On Dec 6, 2012, at 13:49:51, Raymond Norton<admin at lctn.org> wrote: > >> The desktops would need to be windows. Our main issue is how poor video plays over an RDP session. Have not played with actual virtual desktops, but was hoping it would do better with graphics. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 12/6/2012 1:46 PM, Eric Crist wrote: >>> VNC + X11? >>> ----- >>> Eric F Crist >>> >>> >>> >>> On Dec 6, 2012, at 13:37:57, Raymond Norton<admin at lctn.org> wrote: >>> >>>> We would like to toy around with virtual desktops and don't want to make an investment in something like VMware View . Is there an open source solution that people are happy with? >>>> >>>> >>>> Raymond >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >