LTSP on Ubuntu

[Sivan Green]

On 17:01, Sat 22 Jan 05, Joe Zicarelli wrote:
> Renamed 'Re: xmdcp - terminal server support in Ubuntu?' from ubuntu-users:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:23:23 -0500, kmf <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I think I would know how to ...... but first of all we need at least
> > kernel 2.6 on the thin clients.
> 
> http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1-2-en.html#AEN1059
> 
> A major issue is virtual memory: on a true thin client, you don't have
> a local hard disk to swap to.  The LTSP solution has been to swap over
> NFS - however, I can't find 2.6 nfs-swap patches.  Until we have a
> network swapping solution, LTSP with 2.6 means no virtual memory. 
> Doesn't mean we can't play around with LTSP with 2.6, but does limit
> use of old low memory hardware, and also of local-apps.
> > 
> > Maybe we should ask some people to add they're experiences to the wiki
> > page ?
> 
> 
> A huge task is going to be creating Debian packages for LTSP.  I've
> started reading about how to create .debs, but this seems like a
> ridiculously complicated packaging task (to do right, anyways), and
> should receive some careful thought.

As we already talked about it, I would be in for working
together on such right after early february or even sooner
if I get some more things done. As the interest in LTSP
arises I know there is another guy who is interested in
working on packaging the LTSP - we should start
collaborating over the wiki indeed!

Sivan