Hacking Local Devices

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2005, 10:18 -0400 schrieb Jeff Casimir:
> Good morning list,
> 
> I've been working on some plans to use Edubuntu in our school, but the 
> lack of local device support is a deal breaker.  I know that it is a 
> priority for the next release, but I am hoping to deploy machines in the 
> immediate future.
> 
> I see there is a stub of a Wiki page at 
> http://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientLocalDevices but it doesn't have much 
> commentary.  My questions are...
> 
> 1) Are there known hacks/techniques to get floppys & usb disks working?  
> Workable solutions that sacrifices some network/client performance or 
> security are a reasonable compromise.
> 
> 2) Will LTSP techniques transfer over?  I read through 
> http://www.unicolet.org/linux/ltsp.html and it sounds confident.  I'm 
> not a unix guru but it seems straightforward.  Any thoughts?
thats what we'll be working out next week at the conference in montreal,
keep an eye on this place:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/thinclient-local-devices

we'll most likely go with the ltspfs implementation based on fuse as
developed by the ltsp team:
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspFS

this functionallity will be included in our next release.

ciao
	oli
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