Thanks for your response, Jordan. They're marketing it as a solution very much like LTSP - One server feeds multiple corporate desktops, with centralized administration. You update the desktop image, and all of the desktops get it. I assume that they won't get the updated image until they reboot the client.
They're also saying that the clients can be thin clients or reconstituted PC's. That's like LTSP, too. Granted, they seem to be going about the task a little differently, but is that necessarily a bad thing? I've been using LTSP since version 3. It's gone through its share of changes through the years, too. Of course, I could be wrong about this, too... I'm not a big fan of RedHat, but they seem to have far greater resources than most Linux projects. I'm kind of curious if LTSP can benefit from any of this, and how it will affect LTSP in the long term. nico --- On Fri, 1/8/10, Jordan Erickson <jerick...@logicalnetworking.net> wrote: > From: Jordan Erickson <jerick...@logicalnetworking.net> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops vs > LTSP? > To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 3:23 PM > What this looks like is more of a > glorified/re-worked remote desktop > client paired with individual virtual machines on a server. > LTSP seems > to be (at first glance anyway) much different in that > you're using *one* > operating system/server install with many client > connections via X11, > rather than a single virtual machine for each connection > hosted on a > server. Sounds neat, but much different than LTSP to me. > LTSP sticks > more to the true multiuser functionality and centralized > administration > of *nix boxen. > > Of course I could be totally off base. > > Cheers, > Jordan > > > > Nicholas Metsovon wrote: > > I ran across these articles last month, but thought > I'd wait until after the holidays to bring them to your > attention: > > > > http://blogs.computerworld.com/15239/red_hat_heads_back_to_the_desktop_with_spice?source=rss_vnichols > > > > http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/desktop/ > > > > 1) I was wondering if anyone had tried Red Hat > Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops? If so, what > was your experience with it compared to LTSP? > > > > 2) Does anyone have any idea whether this will become > available in the free versions of RHEL, such as CentOS, > etc.? > > > > 3) Is SPICE a technology that the LTSP developers > might want to look at for use in LTSP? > > > > It'll be interesting to see how this affects LTSP, > too. > > > > Thoughts, anyone? > > > > Ciao, > > > > Nico > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon > Developer Community > > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app > development support > > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app > distribution fast and easy > > Join now and get one step closer to millions of > Verizon customers > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer > Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development > support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app > distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon > customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
