Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Asmo Koskinen
h...@neg9.org kirjoitti: Set up your skel the way you want it and let mkhomedir take care of everything else. for 20k users you'll probably have to do some crazy load balacning thing, so you'll probably want to make sure you have a good auth system like ldap. There is a howto for all of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le dimanche 19 juillet 2009 18:42:43, sAwAr a écrit : I'm new here so I have very basic questions. I have to decide which linux distribution choose for deploying LTSP 5. I'm considering Debian Lenny (i use Debian on other servers) and Ubuntu 9.04 which should be easiest to configure. It's a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Sawar
Hi, Thanks for your advices. With my associates we decided that we won't need sound so I think that I'll install ltsp on Debian with lxde and few necessary applications. Hopefully I'll be able to configure lxde desktop to be as simple as possible for users. I have to clarify one thing I'll

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread asmo . koskinen
I've started with Ubuntu because LTSP-5 was mainly developped by Ubuntu peoples, and because it was better documented. That's not true now and AFAIK, LTSP is quite the same in new Ubuntu releases, Debian Sid, OpenSuSE, etc. In Debian Lenny LTSP has all the feature you need for a good desktop

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Roberts
On Monday 20 Jul 2009, Sawar wrote: With my associates we decided that we won't need sound so I think that I'll install ltsp on Debian with lxde and few necessary applications. Hopefully I'll be able to configure lxde desktop to be as simple as possible for users. I have no problem with sound

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote: On Monday 20 Jul 2009, Sawar wrote: With my associates we decided that we won't need sound so I think that I'll install ltsp on Debian with lxde and few necessary applications. Hopefully I'll be able to configure lxde desktop to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:22:03PM +0300, asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: I've started with Ubuntu because LTSP-5 was mainly developped by Ubuntu peoples, and because it was better documented. That's not true now and AFAIK, LTSP is quite the same in new Ubuntu releases, Debian Sid,

[Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-19 Thread sAwAr
hi, I'm new here so I have very basic questions. I have to decide which linux distribution choose for deploying LTSP 5. I'm considering Debian Lenny (i use Debian on other servers) and Ubuntu 9.04 which should be easiest to configure. I must be able to use: OpenOffice Ffirefox (flash, java and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-19 Thread hex
At my previous job we found that printing and pdfs are defintely better under Ubuntu. There are a few other things that make Ubuntu better on the desktop (as much as I do like vanilla debian). Debian is better for servers, Ubuntu is better on the desktop (imho). for creating users you'll