On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Daniel Ramaley wrote:
> This looks very promising. My only initial concern: how easy would it be > to run an OS other than Linux on the server? I've been using LTSP since > the 2.x days and it has always been fairly easy to make it work on the > OpenBSD server we have here. I'm guessing this concern would be similar > to installing LTSP on an OS of a different architecture (for example, > getting a PowerPC machine to boot from an i386 server), though i'm not > sure how it would work out. I see 2 ways to install the base LTSP: 1) use the hosts pkg tools 2) unpack a tarball into a subdir Option #1 should work fine when the architectures are the same, and the Distro is the same. The benefit to doing it this way, is the LTSP packages take up very little room. It's just a set of core utilities. All of the other stuff would be standard host packages that are already on the distro cdrom. Option #2 should work fine when the archs are different, or the distros are different. And, it should also work fine for Non-linux hosts. Just unpack the tarball, boot a client, and continue to administer from that client. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:14 pm, Jim McQuillan wrote: > >I'd like to share with all of you a project that we're working on in > > the world of LTSP. The codename is 'Project MueKow' (pronounced: Moo > > Cow). > > > >The project is an experiment in how we build LTSP. If it works as we > >hope, it will likely become LTSP-5, hopefully in Q4-2005. > > > >If you caught Eric Harrison's email late last week about some > >integration we are working on between LTSP and Ubuntu, you already > > know a little bit about it. > > > >I've written up an article on our wiki, describing in some detail what > >we are really trying to do. > > > >So, I invite you all to take a look at: > > > > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/MueKow > > > >Please read through it, and give us some feedback. This is still in > > the very early stages, and we haven't written any code yet, but it is > > something that we are excited to move forward with. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jim McQuillan > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > >Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real > > users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start > > reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >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 > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dan Ramaley > Digital Media Library Specialist > (515) 271-1934 > Cowles Library 140, Drake University > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
