Bug#414412: ITP: initramfs-tools-tcos -- TCOS, a debian thin client operating system

["Mario Izquierdo (mariodebian)" <mariodebian@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Mario Izquierdo (mariodebian)" <mariodebian@gmail.com>


* Package name    : initramfs-tools-tcos
  Version         : 0.67
  Upstream Author : Mario Izquierdo (mariodebian) <mariodebian@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://cls-tcos.forja.rediris.es
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Shell, Python
  Description     : TCOS, a debian thin client operating system

(Include the long description here.)

TCOS is a new thin client implementation based on debian kernel, libs and bins.
The image generation is very simple, TCOS add some hooks to initramfs-tools to 
build a initramfs file with all app that thin client have to use:

dhclient
udev
wireless
discover
ssh server (dropbear)
sound (alsa modules and libs)
pulseaudio (networked sound server better than esound)
vnc server
rdesktop client
Xorg (with a small number of files)

Thin clients with more than 38 Mb of RAM will boot in "PXES mode", downloading 
with tftp the needed files.

Thin clients with less than 38 Mb of RAM will try to mount a NFS server shared 
dir where gentcos has uncompressed initramfs image.
Not complete distro like LTSP do.

This package is NATIVE PACKAGE, because it hard depends on debian 
(or debian based) distro.


This is the first package of other TCOS packages:

* tcosconfig:  TcosConfig is a GUI for gentcos command line
* tcosmonitor: TcosMonitor is a teacher/admin control center to admin 
               a TCOS classroom (similar to Ubuntu Thin Client Manager)

Some info in GFORGE web page:
    http://cls-tcos.forja.rediris.es/


Debian / Ubuntu repository:
    http://cls-tcos.forja.rediris.es/repos

Some info and screenshots (in spanish):
    http://soleup.eup.uva.es/trac


I have uploaded to mentors.debian.net with this result:

It builds these binary packages:
gentcos    - Image generation scripts, and tftp config for TCOS
initramfs-tools-tcos - tools for generating a thin client bootable image: TCOS
tcos       - new thin client implementation
tcos-server-utils - TCOS server utils (gdm autologin or sshfs mount)
tcos-usplash - usplash boot image for TCOS

The package is lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools-tcos
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools-tcos/initramfs-tools-tcos_0.67.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
 Mario Izquierdo (mariodebian)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)