Thank you to everyone for your feedback. We're currently using SLES 10 sp1 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server), and are at some point going to have to move off of LTSP 4.2 in favor of a version that gets security updates.
CyberOrg: How hard is it for things to progress from OpenSuSE to SLES? Jeremy D. Young Sr. Programmer/Analyst O'Reilly Auto Parts Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/21/2008 04:26:31: > hi, > Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 20:23 -0600 schrieb Peter Scheie: > > > > Oliver Grawert wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 10:08 -0600 schrieb > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> Are any distributions supporting LTSP 5 in their enterprise level > > >> offerings? Biggest thing that we're curious about would be security > > >> updates for more than 3 years. > > > > > > ubuntu LTS (8.04) gets support for 3 years for LTSP and you can > > > optionally buy commercial support contracts... > > > http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid > > > i think thats the only offer of this size about now, afaik warren is > > > working to get ltsp5 into RHEL at some point but that still might take a > > > while ... > > > > > > ciao > > > oli > > > > > Does Canonical's support cover the ltsp parts as well? > yes, thats what the "Terminal Server" column in the table on the webpage > means, though since LTSP is largely depending on the desktop session > LTSP itself only falls under the desktop category in case of long term > support (i.e. 3 years of security updates instead of the 5 you get for > the ubuntu server LTS version). The original poster looked for an option > for more than 3 years, which in case of ubuntu will likely never happen > and in case of RHEL isnt really there yet. > > ciao > oli ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
