[Ltsp] LTSP questions

[Adam Melancon]

Ditto!
I would go with K12LTSP
If you want to see what the desktop looks like, just take a look at
these screenshots from my terminal.
http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us/sysadminsite/files/terminal/
I'm running 4.1


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:54:21 -0700 (PDT), John Hebert
<johnahebert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd use k12ltsp to minimize startup time. Once you
> have that installed, you can add/remove packages to
> suit your needs. I'll bet it will do what you want,
> but if not, at least you will be ahead on the learning
> curve if you want to roll your own.
> 
> The older distro (3.1.2) is more stable, from what
> I've heard. The newer distro (4.1.0) has support for
> more hardware and a nicer installer.
> 
> John
> 
> --- Brad Bendily <brad at selu.edu> wrote:
> > Here at SLU we've had an ongoing project that we
> > want
> > to get Linux on some workstations at our library.
> >
> > I had setup a "Kiosk" station running on Suse. It
> > was
> > fairly easy. Only running a browser and a X session.
> > But I don't want to have to install Suse on the 15
> > stations I want to setup.
> >
> > I tried to remaster my own Knoppix cd, which was
> > a great learning experience as well. It worked, but
> > was very time consuming. I had a few hiccups before
> > I stopped working with it, which I could probably
> > fix.
> > But the thought of burning 15 cd's for these
> > workstations
> > really has me bummed.
> >
> > Because of the recent talks on the brlug and LTSP
> > list
> > I was thinking that LTSP would be great in this
> > particular application. It will be about 15 "Lobby"
> > workstations that will need only a browser.
> > So, we have hit the ltsp.org site and have been
> > digging through the documentation and some questions
> > have come up that I thought i'd ask the list about.
> >
> > First, should we be trying to use the ltsp.org site
> > and "roll our own" or should we forget that and
> > go to http://www.k12ltsp.org/ and use their
> > already pre-packaged distro?
> >
> > If we do use ltsp.org, what's the best distro to
> > run?
> >
> > Any other LTSP newbie advice would be appreciated.
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Brad Bendily - CNA/CLE
> > Systems Administrator
> >
> >
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