Angel Martin Alganza <a...@ugr.es> wrote on 02/26/2009 08:52:34 AM: > Hello, > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:58:45PM -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > What we ended up with is a pretty complete Linux environment running on
> > a thin client, net-booted from a Linux server. For the newer hardware > > out there, based on the Via and Atom chipsets, it's pretty good. users > > get nearly the same desktop experience that other users get. > > That's a very good thing for users who want to have a desktop > experience close or even equal to a full desktop one, of course. > > > But, as you pointed out in your email, it leaves behind the older > > equipment that used to work pretty well with LTSP-4.2. This is a > > problem and unfortunately, I don't have a good solution for it. > > Not only the old equipment, but also new thin clients, beutifully > build, as the Ebox 2300: > > http://www.microcubo.com/productos/394-ebox-2300-thin-client-vesa-pc.html > > Cheap, light, compact, *silent*. A lovely thin client, to my test. It > has a 200 MHz Vortex86 processor and 128 MByte SDRAM. > > > We just didn't (and still don't) have the man-hours to continue > > developing and supporting the old LTSP-4.x version and the LTSP-5 at the > > same time. > > Wouldn't it be possible (perhaps for a future release) to make LTSP > able to use both, the host distro file system and a (some) different > one(s) for more powerful and more modest thin clients, respectively? > > What I'm thinking is something similar to what OneSIS > (http://onesis.sourceforge.net/) does, allowing diskless servers to > run from a specific file system put together for such purpose. > > That's somehow similar to the LTSP 4.x whole idea, but using any file > system build on the server to be used on the thin clients by any way > (copying from a full installation, building it with debootstrap, > "installing" it from a LiveCD, or whatever). > > Wouldn't it be great to use dual core boxes (if you happen to have > any) running from the standard tree on your LTSP server, along with > some PI or Ebox 2300 (or similar litle boxes) runing from something > smaler (let say a Damn Small Linux or Puppy tree copied into a > directory on your very same server? > > Am I just dreaming? :-) > > Cheers, > Ángel How difficult is it currently to run an x86_64 Server distribution and 32-bit clients? Is this difference at all similar to what we would need to consider for a lighter weight variety of a thin client image? Just thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ 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
