-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 June 2004 08:27, Michael Messner wrote: > Hello Anthony, > > at first this project startet because I just was interested if it is > possible to get mythTV working on ltsp. Always a good reason =) "Because its there!"
> > Ok, I just have to ask. Why use LTSP for this purpose? > Because I like it, it's very easy to get working thin clients with ltsp. > You can handle everything from one server and you have only one database > (mysql) and one backend (mythTV) running on this server! > So just the frontend is running on the client and normally the client must > not run, and you can record programs (This I have not tried it because > I've no TV-cards and also I have not finished the server know). Yup, this is the standard method for MythTV. One or more backend servers with TV-cards and several front end clients, it is possible to run both the front and backends on the same server but not recommended. > > There are > > several very good thin network booting solutions designed for MythTV. > > I've used a couple of them but I think the one closest to what it > > sounds like you are after is MiniMyth (http://www.linpvr.org). Non-via > > hardware can be used by simply replacing the boot kernel and the > > X-Server. > minimyth is a very nice distribution, but the developer is not interested > to activate alle official plugins. This is also not really the problem, > so see it as an alternative if you are working with ltsp you don't need > other clients Actually, the only major plugins that are not currently supported are the DVD player and the Game frontend. Support for the DVD player is planned soon though. Personally for my setup here (1 server, 4 thin frontends) I don't need the DVD portion since if I am going to watch a DVD, I'm damn well gonna use my expensive surround system =) On the other hand, I'm a big supporter of the "because its there!" reasoning. If you need anything tested, I have a pretty good test lab with a whole range of different clients and servers. You might also want to look at the windows client for MythTV, gives another option for running frontends on clients who must use that OS. - -- /Anthony Whitehead Unix Sysadmin PGP Key: http://www.solace.mh.se/~ant/ant.pubkey 1024D/1963012A 49C3 A871 43A8 B912 12D2 046E 8FCC 6062 1963 012A - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA1qh4j8xgYhljASoRAiNhAKCuc3/BecNprEW3rOM43rrd5diLOQCffjTV 8zWosV81ezpohHX93Khs4wk= =ZxuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
