Re: LTSP and lessdisks
Markus Gamenius wrote:
> Knut Yrvin wrote:
>
>> torsdag 16. juni 2005, 00:18, skrev Vagrant Cascadian:
>>
>>> so every now and then, i'm curious about the possibility of including
>>> lessdisks in skolelinux. this obviously requires an evaluation of
>>> how lessdisks compares with LTSP.
The short answer is that lessdisks demands a bit more memory than LTSP,
because LTSP uses swap over NFS. I've tried to set up swap over NBD on
lessdisks (0.6.2c i think), and it was not working for more than 1 or 2
clients. There was a message that this might have been fixed the other
day, but I've been to busy handling some flamewars to check it out :)
>> LTSP has support for half thick clients today. But the drawback is the
>> lack of reuse with Debian. This could be solved with the a improwed LTSP:
>> http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/LTSPXorgConfiguration?highlight=%28LTSPXorgConfiguration%29
>>
>> Lessdisks does the job, but more bugs has to be ironed out ... There
>> are 4-5 schools in Norway using Lessdisks with support from Finn-Arne.
>
> We were ensured by the Ubuntu people (and Jim from LTSP) that the next
> LTSP will be out there in October and that this is based on Debian/Ubuntu.
Will it be a part of Debian ?
If I understand Jonas correctly, he hopes to get the lessdisks
debian-packages upto a newer version, or am I mistaken ?
The benefit from having things as a debian package (from debian - not
ubuntu) is that you will get broader attention, and you will get the
maintainability of debian-packages. It the packages are done right, you
also will have the upgradability of debian.
Right now, I think both solutions sucks when it comes to upgradablilty.
I dont think it's possible to do an easy upgrade without a lot of human
interactions on an LTSP-installation
I dont think it's easy to upgrade from the debian version availible in
Sarge (0.5.3cvs.20040906-16) to the one we have in the
Skolelinux-repositories (0.6.2c), the latest that is defined from
lessdisks (0.6.2d) or the experimental from upstream (0.7something)
--
Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no http://bzz.no/
Leverandør av support på, drift og videreutvikling av Skolelinux-løsninger
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