So...

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2006, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Simon Ruiz wrote:

> > So, any ideas? How can I be useful to Edubuntu? Or should I just stick
> > with vanilla Ubuntu?
> 
> There is such a thing as diskless clients which run all of their own
> applications.  This might suit your requirements well.  The idea being that
> you provide a PXE boot image and then an NFS shares with home dir and
> system image.  Then the desktops do all the work.  This might work well for
> you because:
> 
>   - it'll make use of all of your good cpus
>   - adding new machines involves zero install, you just plug them in and PXE
>     boot them
>   - client disk failures are not an issue
>   - installation of software is only done in one place
>   - home directories are stored centrally (although that's easy enough to
>     arrange with nfs anyway)
>   - you get much better performance on video, sound, etc. as the data
>     doesn't have to stream across the network
> 
> I don't think edubuntu supports this mode of operation at the minute, but
> I imagine it could.
well, it can ;) see /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/workstation on edgy ;)
its some manual setup required but that describes essentially whats done
to set up such a system ... it could need some scripting love so we
could have an ltsp-build-workstation script like the ltsp-build-client
one ;) and the issue with login/passwd and /home directories must be
solved...

ciao
	oli
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/attachments/20061010/f928b031/attachment.pgp>