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Although I stick with Debian and don't intend to change, I cannot say
that LTSP is problem-free there. Major concerns have been related to national settings and similar shebank. I live in Slovakia and both keyboard and display must support iso8859-2 charset. However, the GNOME/XFree86 combination on Debian side didn't work well with LTSP X.org settings. The GNOME keyboard switcher on client opened many times with error, did his job in hardly understandeable way and so on.. When I changed the desktop to IceWM and hardcoded the keyboard to X config, things got better. However a bit of hacking was needed to force LTSP X to use AND swap the national keyboard. The changes must have been done both for the X template config and ltsp.conf and if I haven't found several decent howto's covering particular changes needed, I'd probably never made it working on my own. With LTSP 4.2, I definitely CAN'T get the national keyboard working anymore. That's why I still use 4.1 The fonts side problems have been vastly interesting -I have been unable to see any diacritical fonts under OpenOffice.org for so long.. Then I switched to VESA drivers on clients and problems were gone, although VESA on remote client is a synonym for slowness. The lesser the client's graphical card memory has, the stronger I suggest usage of VESA drivers for client. With 2MB or less, it's pure neccessarity. The local drives have never worked for me, and since I only spent some 20+ hours trying to do it, 7 of which have been with LTSP 4.2, I has given up until the next version of LTSP. I don't have enough time nor experience to hack around out of the standard howtos available. May be others got more luck. Other problems arise when I tryed to use NFS3 on server side. Never finished the booting.. The LTSP seems incompatible with NFS3 on Debian server for me. Don't know how the 4.2 version performs in that order; I don't try to change the NFS version since the last failure. Conclusion: I can't say if it was any easier to use any other distro. I prefer Debian for its stability and because I know it more than other distros I have had a deal with. If You know those things that are problematic, You can use it too. And of course, the very Debian as a desktop is other chapter You must be familiar with if You intend to use it as desktop for many users :-) MY SUGGESTION: If You know any reasonably well-known distro better than others, PLEASE CHOOSE IT AND USE IT FULL TIME and don't bother with others. You should install the one You will be able to administer with as much ease as possible. Despite of many problems, thanks to the authors of the Debian and LTSP projects. They're both great things. Peter Paul VanGundy wrote / napísal(a): All, I use Ubuntu as both workstations and servers in our school district. I think Ubuntu rocks! We use Ubuntu as a server in many different ways:1. Web server 2. LTSP (Ubuntu 6.06 with LTSP) 3. DHCP Server 4. Email server All of the above have been very stable and reliable on Ubuntu. On top of that, we have an Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure that we have been able to easily integrate it in. -Paul -- Paul VanGundy Director of Information Technology Epping School District P: 603.679.5472 F: 603.679.2966 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #398783 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Krishna Murphy Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:57 AM To: Gudmund Areskoug Cc: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use? Hey- I'm looking at a situation in W. Africa where I think LTSP might be a good fit for their needs. Ubuntu sounds like a good way to go for desktop stuff - but I've heard concerns about using it as the server. What's the general concensus, if any? -Krishna On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Hi Peter, Father Peter wrote: |
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