Dear Mr. McQuillan, Thank you for this valuable information, and for all of your work on the LTSP Project.
Which version of Ubuntu do you recommend for an LTSP server -- the server or workstation version? With kind regards, Peter, hieromonk ---- Dormition Skete Our Monastery Website: http://www.DormitionSkete.org Our Catechetical Website: http://www.TrueOrthodoxy.Info GOC of Greece Website: http://www.omologitis.org ---- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McQuillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Damien Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use? > Damien, > > Asking which distro should be used can quickly turn into a war of biblical > proportions. So, rather than explain my favorite distribution, I'll > describe how LTSP is developed. > > Initially (Until about december of 2003), LTSP was built on Redhat. So, > we were VERY familiar with how Redhat was configured, and how to make LTSP > work on it. > > Then, we switched to Debian (As did lots of people, when redhat abandoned > the desktop in favor of the server market). > > So, we became very familiar with Debian. Then, when Ubuntu came on the > scene, we jumped onto that, like lots of people. The fact that Ubuntu was > based on debian made that nice and simple. > > Now, with Ubuntu being so popular, and with several of us being invited to > the Ubuntu developers meetings, we are pretty firmly entrenched in the > world of Ubuntu. > > We haven't given up on Redhat. We try to make sure that everything works > as well in Redhat/Fedora, as it does with Ubuntu and Debian. In fact, > i've got several deployments out there on RHEL3 and RHEL4, so it's > definately in my best interested to keep the support for redhat as well as > we can. On top of that, Eric Harrison of K12ltsp is still deeply rooted > in Fedora. He's got a new version of k12ltsp based on fc5 coming out > *real soon now*. He's also got a version of k12ltsp based on Centos, so > any Centos or RHEL users should feel good about that. > > Unfortunately, the sad truth is, most of the core LTSP developers just > don't have much Suse experience. Support is something that we always try > to do the best we can with any distro out there. But, we are limited in > our resources, and we just don't have the same depth in Suse, Gentoo or > Slackware that we have in Ubuntu or Redhat. It's not that we have > anything against those distros, we just don't have the time and energy to > become proficient in every distro out there. > > Properly supporting a distro is much more involved than just making sure > it installs properly. It also requires intimate knowledge of how things > work on that distro, to help support people when things don't go right, or > when they've modified their system, and the install scripts don't work > properly. > > So, here's an open invitation to anybody who would like to see better LTSP > support in their favorite distro. Show up in the #ltsp IRC channel on > irc.freenode.net, and help people when there's a problem. And, we do most > of our development in the IRC channel, so it's a chance to work with the > LTSP core developers, to make sure the needs of those distros are heard, > loud and clear. > > Thanks, > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _____________________________________________________________________ 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
