hi, Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2006, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Simon Ruiz wrote:
> > So, any ideas? How can I be useful to Edubuntu? Or should I just stick
> > with vanilla Ubuntu?
>
> There is such a thing as diskless clients which run all of their own
> applications. This might suit your requirements well. The idea being that
> you provide a PXE boot image and then an NFS shares with home dir and
> system image. Then the desktops do all the work. This might work well for
> you because:
>
> - it'll make use of all of your good cpus
> - adding new machines involves zero install, you just plug them in and PXE
> boot them
> - client disk failures are not an issue
> - installation of software is only done in one place
> - home directories are stored centrally (although that's easy enough to
> arrange with nfs anyway)
> - you get much better performance on video, sound, etc. as the data
> doesn't have to stream across the network
>
> I don't think edubuntu supports this mode of operation at the minute, but
> I imagine it could.
well, it can ;) see /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/workstation on edgy ;)
its some manual setup required but that describes essentially whats done
to set up such a system ... it could need some scripting love so we
could have an ltsp-build-workstation script like the ltsp-build-client
one ;) and the issue with login/passwd and /home directories must be
solved...
ciao
oli
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