Re: question

[Jason Martin]

On 4/1/2010 11:00 AM, Judd Storrs wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Козлов Андрей Алексеевич
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>    
> > I just want to get an official response from the software manufacturer.
> >      
> I doubt any of the octave developers use Citrix, but I also doubt that
> Citrix causes any problems. But I don't think you are going to find
> anyone that will guarantee that octave will run under Cytrix. Octave
> is free software released under the GNU GPL. This means that you don't
> need to purchase it before you use but octave has no warranties
> whatsoever. I've never used Citrix. What sort of restrictions does
> Citrix place on software?
>
>
> --judd
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judd, Citrix is a more secure means of creating a virtual OS over a 
network.  Unless I am incorrect, which will happen, it is similar to No 
Macines NX client where you connect to a host, it partitions out a small 
space for you to live in, and you go about your work with the installed 
apps in that virtual space.


For the OP:
The real problem with running Octave under Citrix is going to be the 
host server's hardware and the number of users attached at any one 
time.  If I read correctly, you are running a virtual server off of 2.4 
GHz 2 Gb  RAM hardware correct?  I am running my copy of Octave on a 
system that has 4 Gb RAM and it simply filies.  But that is one user.  
As more and more users hop on and start using Octave, as a virtual 
installation, you are going to run into problems quickly as one or more 
users start to eat up your resources on the host.  I think it would be a 
better solution for you to have Octave installed locally on each system 
that needs it, or look into setting up Octave as a cluster maybe.

But those are just my pennies.

Jason