Re: Powerful diskless client

[Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>]

Michael West <web@mitzit.net> writes:

> > LTSP? <http://www.ltsp.org/>
> 
>      Thanks, this site looks great.  But what does it provide that the
>      Debian diskless packages do not?

LTSP provides a lite terminal for connecting to another machine via
XDM as where, to my understanding, the diskless packages provide
full-bodied linux work stations whose root partition is mounted via
NFS.

LTSP mounts the root filesystem via NFS as well, but, the client file
system and overall-system is as small as possible - just enough to run
the needed services (such as an XServer and say, esd) and connect to a
host via XDM.

Elizabeth