Greetings, On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Rob Owens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 07:52:58AM -0600, Richard Nelson wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rob Owens <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'd like to hear how folks on this list are using net images of Debian >> > Live. >> > >>
...snip... >> >> I was once a user of LTSP for a few hundred clients, but there were >> some limitations that were found to be clumsy to work around. I found >> that shipping out a full Debian desktop to each client was the easiest >> way to go. >> > What specific problems did you have? I know that flash video seems to > be one of the weak points of LTSP. Flash is a CPU hog, and having every > user run it on the same server isn't so great. These days a lot of > people are starting to run Firefox as a local app to combat that > problem. > You mention a some of the issues, and to stay on topic for the debian-live list, I will simply say the web requires multimedia and local device access for a best experience. It was at the time we switched to Debian Live and still is, as I said above, easier to ship out a full desktop and just throw it away upon shutdown. Especially a desktop that is essentially hardware agnostic. >> > The options I've come up with so far are LTSP "fat client mode" (still >> > researching this one), DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux), and Debian >> > Live net images. >> > >> >> I use stock netboot with plainfs so the image can be chrooted to and >> tuned in for quick fixes for the fleet. I would never go back to LTSP >> if my clients had sufficient processing and ram. >> > Thanks, I didn't even know that was an option. Do you know what the > difference is between "plain" and "ext2" or "ext3" for the > --chroot-filesystem? see man page lb_config . > ...snip... >> All I can say is Debian Live has been a work horse at many locations for me. > > Out of curiosity, what sort of environment are you using this in? > School, recreation center, etc? > Public Schools and public kiosk settings. I actually think http://webconverger.com/ is best for general web kiosk. >> > >> > I'd appreciate any advice, anecdotes, warnings, etc. >> >> Proper planing with sufficient testing never hurts. >> > I guess it's time for me to start tinkering. Thanks for the info. > Welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
