LTSP on Ubuntu

[Sivan Green]

On 11:47, Tue 25 Jan 05, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman 
> 
> | On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:48:52PM -0500, JLB wrote:
> | 
> | > Along the lines of this thread, I would also like to see the NoMachine
> | > MX Server packages (or even statically compiled ones) built out of the
> | > free gpl libs. I already have the NoMachine NX client running great on
> | > hoary connecting to a SuSe server. Being familiar with ltsp on slack
> | > and k12ltsp, I can tell ya, NoMachine runs circles around ltsp.
> | 
> | I believe Tollef expressed some interest in this in the past.
> 
> I do, but I have some major issues with the design of how NXserver and
> FreeNX works (they use a SSH tunnel with a publically known key and
> nxserver set as the shell, then use their own authentication inside
> that, they use /usr/NX which is not ok wrt the FHS, I've seen
> /home/.nx mentioned as the nxserver user's home directory, which is
> something I think is wrong, wrong, wrong).  Therefore, I am writing a
> nxd which will have a different design than NXserver.

So, given this latest improvements to FreeNX , is it going
to be the Ubuntu terminal server solution? Maybe having both
LTSP and NX as an available, apt-gettable aolution is wise?

Sivan