DRBL vs Lowfat

[Sameer Verma]

Note: I posted this on edubuntu-users as well.

I had posted a while ago about specs for a server to serve up about 35 
clients. Many of you replied and thank you so much for the input - we 
managed to acquire a dual Xeon (2.8GHz each) with 4GB of RAM and two 
SATA drives. Edubuntu goes on it next week.

In the meantime, I came across Diskless Remote Boot for Linux  
(http://drbl.sourceforge.net/). DRBL's approach seems to be more along 
the lines of what might suit us better; our desktops have 2GB of RAM and 
fast Core Duo processors, so we might as well use those horses. A bit 
more looking around led me to something called LTSP 5' s "Low Fat" 
client, which is similar to DRBL. However, I haven't been able to find 
any documentation on "Low Fat" with respect to LTSP 5.

Any pointers?

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/