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Good!Good!Posted Sep 27, 2006 7:10 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: The future of the Linux Terminal Server Project (Linux.com)
This is actually pretty exciting. Expect, in a few months, to be able to say something like "apt-get install ltsp", and have a working service all ready to connect an unlimited number of thin clients to. This makes it very easy to upgrade, e.g., a library or school PC lab room from WinXX to Linux, in-place, just by putting Debian (or something) on the file server and changing a single BIOS option on each workstation.
Yes, as it is you could put old-style LTSP on the file server, but then you have to administer an LTSP system, which has much less community support than your (otherwise favorite) Linux distribution. This new mode allows the LTSP team to concentrate all their efforts on the core project, and drop the distracting responsibilities of maintaining a whole distro, something they don't really have the resources to do well anyway.
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Good! Posted Sep 29, 2006 14:23 UTC (Fri) by ogra (guest, #20098) [Link] > This is actually pretty exciting. Expect, in a few months, to be able to> say something like "apt-get install ltsp", and have a working service all > ready to connect an unlimited number of thin clients to.
thats exactly how it works in ubuntu since the breezy (5.10) release ;)
see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickIns...
with the edgy release (6.10) it will be feature complete and is considered as the base for ltsp5 to derive from for integration into the other distros.
so you will be able to not only apt-get install it but also yum install it then ;)
Good! Posted Sep 29, 2006 16:17 UTC (Fri) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] Don't forget about emerging it. =)
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