Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
hi Todd On 10-11-23 10:35 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: I create a fat-client chroot that has a bunch of stuff in it. In particular, in my lab I teach programming, so I've got a few programming languages installed, Google Chrome, etc. Then I run ltsp-update-kernels, ltsp-update-image, and

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-23 Thread Todd O'Bryan
OK, still trying to clarify this... I create a fat-client chroot that has a bunch of stuff in it. In particular, in my lab I teach programming, so I've got a few programming languages installed, Google Chrome, etc. Then I run ltsp-update-kernels, ltsp-update-image, and ltsp-update-sshkeys, just

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-15 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2010, 19:23 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Carter (highvoltage): I looked at the DRBL docs, and couldn't see anything it provides that ltsp fat clients doesn't already do. Could you elaborate on why you believe that it's a no-brainer? last time i looked at DRBL (which is

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-15 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I hadn't realized how nice the support for fat clients was in LTSP until I looked at the docs. Especially in a mixed thin/fat environment (where you're buying machines to replace thin clients over time), it seems like this might be the way to go. The one thing I didn't see right off was how to

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-15 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Todd On 10-11-15 05:22 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: What if the thin clients are i386 and the fat clients are amd64? You'll have to have separate i386 and amd64 chroots. Typically though, i386 images are used for both. Also, I guess I'm not understanding something about how the chroot works.

Re: DRBL and Technology

2010-11-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jim On 10-11-13 10:31 AM, Jim Christiansen wrote: As for including DRBL in Edubuntu it would seem to be a no-brainer. We can't hold up progress, we've got to embrace it and roll with it every step of the way. I'm in a school where the Principals have always been supportive of Linux and

DRBL and Technology

2010-11-13 Thread Jim Christiansen
OK... I give! ;-) Robert A. (aka: of Fl_TeacherTool fame) came by for a visit last summer with his beautiful family and explained to me, among other things, how DRBL worked. I had read about it a year earlier and even grabbed the scripts but didn't go any further with it (I've been terribly