Hi Jim, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Unfortunately, while we agree that LTSP should be considered a service > like Apache and Samba, there's a huge difference between those projects > and LTSP. Those projects sit on top of a distro. LTSP needs deep > integration with the distro. For LTSP-5 to work on Suse, it needs to > use much of the infrastructure of Suse as its core. This turns out to > be a HUGE amount of work to get it integrated.
since LTSP runs on SUSE, I very much hope they'll not make the best the enemy of the good, and Just Make It Work as a first step, *then* tune it. I was under the impression that things LTSP were progressing fairly well at/in SUSE, including some education-targeted initiative. Will have to check what's going on. > We've always said that we're willing to help distros integrate LTSP into > their product. But, like I've said before, this requires a huge effort > on their part. If Suse (or anyone) is really interested in doing this, > they need to show up at the table ready to do some serious work. We > don't have a clear path of how each distro can do this. We do ALL of > our development on the #ltsp IRC channel. All discussions about how we > do things take place there. > > There's been an amazing amount of work done between the Ubuntu, Debian > and LTSP developers to make this all work. Good for Ubuntu and Debian if it works out well, bad for SUSE if they don't do it. > It really does require actual distro team people from each distro to > help make this happen. Getting ANY package included in a distro is much > harder than it used to be, and when a package requires twisting and > molding of things like init scripts, initramfs images, kernels, session > scripts and other things, it's just not going to ever get included in a > particular distro unless that distro's guys are deeply involved. ...and/or someone who knows how to handle YaST/make YaST modules, perhaps, for SUSE. BR, Gudmund ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
