The future of the Linux Terminal Server Project (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

The future of the Linux Terminal Server Project (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 25, 2006 7:04 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: The future of the Linux Terminal Server Project (Linux.com) by job
Parent article: The future of the Linux Terminal Server Project (Linux.com)

Sort of, I guess. But not realy. Keep in mind that I haven't used it myself.

You need two parts..
The boot/application server. Were the 'X clients' reside and user management is done and stuff like that.
The mini-linux system for booting and running the X server on the diskless clients.

So it's more like a system for doing X terminals were your using a existing Linux distro to do the X clients (the applications) portions and to serve as a PXE (or etherboot or whatnot) boot strap server to launch a mini linux system for running the diskless X terminals.

Before I think they used a stripped down redhat system for running the diskless clients.. but it makes sense that if your using Debian (for instance) to run LTSP from you'd want to use a stripped down version of that system for running your clients. Same package versions, updates and drivers and that sort of thing. Which is the direction things seem to be going.

It's nothing you can't do yourself, of course, by taking a Debian or Redhat or whatever box and setting up client images and configuring your graphical login manager and stuff. LTSP would just aim at making it much easier to setup and manage.

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