Hi,
Now that GSoC is over I would like to share a few project ideas
that might be used on future GSoC terms. Sharing and discussing
project ideas never hurts, even if I am not able to mentor next year.
If I don't publish them somewhere it is quite possible that I will forget
about them.
Currently Virtual-LTSP scripts support only VirtualBox:
One possible improvement can be to support KVM/QEMU
and Docker as well. They have some benefits compared to VirtualBox,
for example VirtualBox can support only Intel architectures
(i386/amd64), while KVM/QEMU can support other architectures
as well (for example arm). Docker is less resource intensive compared
to VirtualBox and KVM/QEMU and it offers native performance
(the guest has almost the same performance as the host).
Another possible improvement can be to support RaspberryPi
Probably this requires that Virtual-LTSP supports chroot mode
as well (currently it supports chrootless mode only).
Some other small fixes/improvements can be these:
- Fix the guest account
The guest account provided is not really a guest account. A guest account is supposed to clean up (or undo) all the changes made by the guest user. It usually does it on logout or before the next login.
- Fix autologin
The autologin in the LTSP context makes sense only when each client logs in as a different user. If all the clients login as the same user it is not going to work well.
- Fix ltsp-manager
ltsp-manager fails to be installed
- Build a vagrant box based on LMDE3
The debian branch needs to be reworked as well, to be similar to
the ubuntu branch. Or maybe they can be merged into a single branch.
Regards,
Dashamir