[Ltsp-discuss] OT - "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!"

2004-07-15 Thread Rick Barnich
This is a great tome on why to use open source software/free software. Everything you need to argue for Linux to those M$ administrative holdouts. Interesting perspective on the recent CERT / Homeland Security recommendations to stop using M$ Internet Explorer and related software. Several

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] success stories

2004-07-15 Thread garry saddington
On Thursday 15 July 2004 1:25 am, Ales Jagodnik wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a diploma on using LTSP in schools > (Slovenia, Europe) and I would like to hear some > succes stories of LTSP uses like in schools, libraries > etc worldwide > > If possible with a internet link, please. > > BTW I am rea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] workstation crash

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 07:59, Christian Collins wrote: > I'm wondering if my "economy" switch IS part of the problem. > > Another crash just documented. And within the same hour I received a > report of poor voice quality with the VoIP. The switch is unmanaged and > the voice problems haven't bee

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] workstation crash

2004-07-15 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2004 23:59 schrieb Christian Collins: > I'm wondering if my "economy" switch IS part of the problem. > > Another crash just documented. And within the same hour I received a > report of poor voice quality with the VoIP. The switch is unmanaged and > the voice problems haven'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Setup questions

2004-07-15 Thread jam
Hi > > Do I have to have a X setup, compiled for PowerPC for them? > > You will need XFree86 binaries, and the rest of the NFS-root > environment, compiled for ppc, yes. > > > Basically my question is, Do my clients and Server have to be the same > > architecture? (Sorry about the spelling erro

[Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf problem

2004-07-15 Thread Liam Marshall
I have the Fedora Core 1/LTSP images downloaded. I burned the cds, and installed the server with defaults. My workstations are all IBM 300PL 6562's, either the 34U versions or the 50U versions. No hard drives, all have floppies, some have cd's. They can connect to the server fine, but the sou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] workstation crash

2004-07-15 Thread Christian Collins
I'm wondering if my "economy" switch IS part of the problem. Another crash just documented. And within the same hour I received a report of poor voice quality with the VoIP. The switch is unmanaged and the voice problems haven't been a problem very often so I thought I could get by with a simple

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Success stories

2004-07-15 Thread Patrick Rea
The entire government of France is heading to Open Source. According to my latest Mandrake newsletter, they are replacing something in the neighbourhood of 1,000,000 MS based PCs and 1500 NT servers in one ministry alone. On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:37 am, Christian Collins wrote: > JAG, > > I d

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: LWE San Francisco

2004-07-15 Thread Marty Connor
I've given it a lot of thought, and have decided not to attend LinuxWorld Expo in August. I am hopeful that I will be able to attend that one in Boston next February, and that we can do something special for it. I would also like to express thanks to Jim McQuillan for his generous offer to shar

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2004-07-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I change in configuration the vesa driver, the same problem occurred. this is my configuration: - [cpdtest] XSERVER= vesa X_MODE_0 = 640x480 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 +hsync +vsync X_MODE_1

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-4.1 Beta ISO Image

2004-07-15 Thread jam
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Marvin T. Pascual wrote: > Any plans to release the ISO image of the LTSP-4.1 Beta? :) Probably not for the beta. It's moving too quickly to capture it on a cdrom. Since releasing the beta late monday night, i've already fixed several bugs and uploaded new package files.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] trident 9680

2004-07-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I change in configuration the vesa driver, the same problem occurred. this is my configuration: - [cpdtest] XSERVER= vesa X_MODE_0 = 640x480 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 +hsync +vsync X_MODE_1

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.1 Beta

2004-07-15 Thread jam
Peter, Is the nsc driver working ok for you ? If you get a chance, could you try setting XSERVER = cyrix That's the Xserver that is supposed to work for that chipset. It's a patch that I've created for XFree86 and Xorg. It's entirely possible that it's my cyrix driver that is causing all

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Success stories

2004-07-15 Thread Christian Collins
JAG, I don't think Largo uses LTSP (they should) but they do use open-source and thin clients: http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19 There are plenty of organizations in the news saying no to MS. c Jim Glutting wrote: LTSP users, I have a client that I am trying to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Success stories

2004-07-15 Thread Steven G. Spencer
Jim, You want unbiased testimonials?? I can't give you that exactly. I'm a firm believer that if the world would dump their MS crap in the river, it would be a better and safer Internet! :-) That said, I've had some real success with LTSP. We have 15 branch locations in 3 states. Each branch

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fedora Core 2 + LTSP 4 problem - for Jim McQuillan

2004-07-15 Thread Steven G. Spencer
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:59, Marc Heckmann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:07:07PM -0500, Steven G. Spencer wrote: > > I'm using gnome. Did you download the ltsp-4.iso from the web site? > > The iso has a ltspcfg utility that is very handy. I did have to modify > > it to deal with xorg (as o

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-4.1 Beta ISO Image

2004-07-15 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
Any plans to release the ISO image of the LTSP-4.1 Beta? :) Marvin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP+OpenMosix: A Mini How-To

2004-07-15 Thread Maurice Libes
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0530, Ashwin Gami _7020_ wrote: > Dear Maurice, > > Thanks for your kind help. > Actually I am able to do the things you described till vmlinuz--- > only. so you mean that you followed every steps in order to produce the good new LTSP kernel pathed with ope

[Ltsp-discuss] Success stories

2004-07-15 Thread Jim Glutting
LTSP users, I have a client that I am trying to convince that LTSP workstations are more cost effective and more reliable than new PC's running MS, and that users are able to get their job done with non-MS software. I am requesting any success stories or testimonials from small to medium size

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.1 Beta

2004-07-15 Thread Peter Childs
Just put 4.1 Beta on to test. It seams to work fine, mind you I did copy most of my setting over from 4.0. Its does not seam to freeze like 4.0 did with my ST320 Thin clients (only time will tell however). Not using the updated kernel yet but then Some slight quirks xdm login

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP+OpenMosix: A Mini How-To

2004-07-15 Thread Ashwin Gami _00007020_
Dear Maurice, Thanks for your kind help. Actually I am able to do the things you described till vmlinuz--- only. I have onboard lan and supports pxe boot so I need bzImage--- and initrd--- for that purpose. Now question is How to get this images after the steps you have described. Sorry, for not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 DHCP Servers

2004-07-15 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2004 21:11 schrieb Peter Childs: > Dieter Kroemer wrote: > Talking of having two nic cards in the server, I wish to run ltsp on > both of them, however dhcp runs fine and hands out an ip but tftp fails > to deliver the kernel on any but the first nic, Can't work out why...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP+OpenMosix: A Mini How-To

2004-07-15 Thread Maurice Libes
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:39:50AM +0530, Ashwin Gami _7020_ wrote: > Dear Friends, > I am using mandrake 10 + ltsp 3 > Does anyone know how to create > bzImage-2.4.16-om5 > initrd-2.4.16-om5.gz > after the following steps as per > LTSP+OpenMosix: A Mini How-To > document by James Jensen i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Setup questions

2004-07-15 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:52, Pangrazio, Robert Thomas (UMR-Student) wrote: > Do I have to have a X setup, compiled for PowerPC for them? You will need XFree86 binaries, and the rest of the NFS-root environment, compiled for ppc, yes. > Basically my question is, Do my clients and Server have to b