[K12OSN] Is This A Usable Thin Client For LTSP?

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> > > http://www.ewayco.com/51-embedded-systems-100-PC-mini-ITX-low-cost/100-tu-low-cost-pc-thin-client-embedded-system.html

Nice!  Is it easy to buy these in Europe?

> the biggest problem with this device and ltsp 5 is currently the
> boottime hich is with feisty's ltsp hilariously long.

> (new ldm with an unencrypted mode for X but still encrypted passwords,
> fast X detection, new squashfs/unionfs architecture and indeed the
> matching alsa drivers), but for feisty you are best off with using a
> static xorg,conf via an lts.conf option, to switch off the splash in your
> PXE config and not use ldm (not because of the CPU not handling the
> encryption but it starts up very slow on that machine) by defining
> SCREEN_07=startx, that should get you a bearable bootspeed.

So is the slow boot time just down to xorg config and ldm start times or is
there something else going on? 

I'm just interested in general in the LTSP5 boot times.  Is there a project
page about that somewhere?

Gavin