Hi, On Mon, 01 Nov 2004, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 01-11-2004 13:31, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > Would the lessdisks approach which is in development not solve these issues > > more effectively? As I understand it (corrections most welcome) the entire > > OS comes over the network *but* in contrast to the thin clients, all apps > > run locally instead of remotely over X. > > Sounds like you are wrong about lessdisks: It certainly does! > Lessdisks is a framework for distributed diskless systems. As such, it > _can_ be configured to run all apps locally, or it can execute X11 apps > remotely (insecurely as LTSP3 or SSH-encrypted), or run VNC, or run NX, > or... Would a system configured to run all apps locally not be a good solution to this problem them? Granted this may need testing. > The default setup (and also the most tested AFAIK) is running all X11 > apps remotely, similar to LTSP3 but SSH-encrypted. I see. > If LTSP can be setup exactly like you need it then that is the easiest > to use. But I believe it is easier to customize lessdisks than LTSP, > because everything is Debian (the client filesystem is simply a chroot > on the server). Interesting. I'm really going to have to get my test network back up and running to try some of this stuff. Thanks, Gavin
