DRBL and Technology

[Todd O'Bryan]

I hadn't realized how nice the support for fat clients was in LTSP
until I looked at the docs. Especially in a mixed thin/fat environment
(where you're buying machines to replace thin clients over time), it
seems like this might be the way to go. The one thing I didn't see
right off was how to tell each client, based on MAC address I assume,
which image to load--either thin or fat. I assume you do that in the
lts.conf file.

Todd

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2010, 19:23 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Carter
> (highvoltage):
>> I looked at the DRBL docs, and couldn't see anything it provides that
>> ltsp fat clients doesn't already do. Could you elaborate on why you
>> believe that it's a "no-brainer"?
> last time i looked at DRBL (which is admittedly several years ago) it
> was built in a way that massively modifies config files, adds scripts
> that unconditionally change system setup in a way that the package
> system isnt aware and broken existing setups without checks etc. in that
> state it wasnt integrateable at all in a distro.
>
> as i said, i dont know what changed within the last years, probably it
> got better nowadays but at my time as active LTSP developer it seemed
> more sane and less work to integrate fat clients in a sensible way than
> trying to make the DRBL scripts and setup work in an unintrusive way.
>
> ciao
>        oli
>
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