Hi Klaus, On Fr 07 Jan 2011 21:40:44 CET Klaus Knopper wrote:
For LINBO, we probably don't need to change anything in Skolelinux. LINBO consists of a kernel and an initial ramdisk für PXE booting a graphical imaging and direct boot console that handles various operating systems. It can be installed on any machine acting as DHCP-Server.
Similar to LTSP there should be a build-system included that helps modifying kernel and initrd for LINBO clients. Also there should be tool that helps creating LINBO images that get run on the LINBO clients.
Only if we want to install LINBO on Tjener in order to easily install and repair workstations in the same subnet, we could provide scripts that change the DHCP servers configuration. But I believe this can also be done manually. LINBO really just needs the two files in a new directory that should be accessible for tftpd.
Where do the workstation images come from? How can they be included in Skolelinux??? For non-free OSses there should be a toolbox that helps to create those images.
Wait... One thing missing in LINBO is automatic localisation yet, since it is quite monolithic, but this is not difficult to change.
With localisation you mean translation of UI text phrases? Or something different? i18n/l18n support is of course welcome and probably a definite need and requirement for Debian Edu... Hopefully your primary language is English and German phrases are gettexted in...
(1) some effort has to be put in filing an Debian ITP (intent to package for Debian) for LINBO andCreating a Debian package for the LINBO binaries with documentation and examples is easy. Creating a single source package from the 1.2 GB of sources is near to impossible. I don't know if this is a requirement. We have LINBO packages on http://rp.skolelinux.de/packages/linbo/,
Of course, if LINBO wants to be included in Debian you definitely have to provide sources for your package. I do not think that Debian developers will be very happy about 1.2gb of code.
Please also note: one of Debian's major policies is to avoid code duplications within the whole distribution. Without having seen your code base, I guess the 1.2gb could be reduced by far if you took advantage of sources and packages already available in Debian. Though, this is just a guess... (and should be a goal!!!).
I will be happy to take a look at your LINBO link tomorrow and gain an overview on the 1.2gb of source code ;-)
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