Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-07 Thread Robert Lefebvre
Forgot the link ... sorry http://www.saurik.com/id/10 On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > I came across this step by step tutorial on running Ubuntu and Android > together on the same smartphone. While that is not the same as running > ltsp with as Android app it soun

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-07 Thread Robert Lefebvre
I came across this step by step tutorial on running Ubuntu and Android together on the same smartphone. While that is not the same as running ltsp with as Android app it sounds like it may contain a lot of the key pieces of the puzzle. And considering that the smart phones are a lot more locked do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-05 Thread Chad Dougherty
On 12/04/2012 10:19 PM, James McQuillan wrote: > Long term, everything is going web-based. There's some seriously cool > web-based stuff available already, and more is coming every day. LTSP > for the most part is going to become a platform for running a browser. > That's understandable but I, f

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-05 Thread Chris Roberts
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:19:29PM -0500, James McQuillan wrote: >� - NX client for android. �I searched google, but didn't find one. �I'm >guessing there is, or soon will be one. http://nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR02H00556 Seems there will be. -- Chris Roberts http://chrisjrob.co

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-04 Thread James McQuillan
I don't understand the desire to run "LTSP" on an android device. We developed LTSP as a small "distribution of Linux" to run on fairly low-end hardware because so many people weren't happy with the current choices. At the time, the world was largely dominated by Windows 95 and 98. LTSP was succ

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-04 Thread Robert Lefebvre
Thank you everybody. I think we have some really good discussion going and hopefully some people with the skills can step forward and build some of the needed parts that could make all this easier and enable widespread use of these devices as thin clients. At our school, for example, I just built m

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-04 Thread James Linder
On 04/12/2012, at 11:44 PM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >>> It's also complicated to set up LDM in a non-LTSP environment unless you >> really >>> understand it well. > > Well I definitely don't understand it but when my current clients boot, PXE > and LTSP deliver them a l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > >LDM is a piece of software that runs on the client hardware, and uses SSH > >to connect to the server. > > > I don't understand this as we run about forty thin clients and they boot with > PXE and we don't put any software on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-03 Thread asmo . koskinen
>> >> >LDM is a piece of software that runs on the client hardware, and uses >> SSH >> to >> >connect to the server. >> > > I don't understand this as we run about forty thin clients and they boot > with PXE and we don't put any software on them? Here is something to start. Asus Eee 900 as a LTSP-

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-03 Thread Robert Lefebvre
> > >LDM is a piece of software that runs on the client hardware, and uses SSH > to > >connect to the server. > I don't understand this as we run about forty thin clients and they boot with PXE and we don't put any software on them? > > >It's probably not feasible to run as an android app, as it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-03 Thread andre laforest
Hi, Is there a NX client for Android? Porting Remmina with NX to Android, that could be a nice projet for the FOSS community... From my point of view, the best way for accessing LTSP from the net is having NEAT X server on LTSP machine with a NX or Remmina client. If someone could create a NX

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:36:51PM -0500, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > I've purchased three android devices - two micro PCs (MK802 and Raspberry PI) > and have an Android tablet. Since none of the devices have PXE to boot to the > LTSP network I need another method. > > I was wondering if it were poss