hi, Am Donnerstag, den 27.10.2005, 10:18 -0400 schrieb Jeff Casimir: > Good morning list, > > I've been working on some plans to use Edubuntu in our school, but the > lack of local device support is a deal breaker. I know that it is a > priority for the next release, but I am hoping to deploy machines in the > immediate future. > > I see there is a stub of a Wiki page at > http://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientLocalDevices but it doesn't have much > commentary. My questions are... > > 1) Are there known hacks/techniques to get floppys & usb disks working? > Workable solutions that sacrifices some network/client performance or > security are a reasonable compromise. > > 2) Will LTSP techniques transfer over? I read through > http://www.unicolet.org/linux/ltsp.html and it sounds confident. I'm > not a unix guru but it seems straightforward. Any thoughts? thats what we'll be working out next week at the conference in montreal, keep an eye on this place: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/thinclient-local-devices
we'll most likely go with the ltspfs implementation based on fuse as developed by the ltsp team: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspFS this functionallity will be included in our next release. ciao oli
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