hi, Am Samstag, den 14.04.2007, 11:57 +0200 schrieb William Kinghorn: > Hi All, > > Two programs that I think would be great to add to Ubuntu/Edubuntu. > > DRBL - Diskless Remote Boot in Linux http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ > > I know that this is not thin client as LSTP, but for the people that want to > run Edubuntu as workstations in their labs, or Ubuntu etc as workstations. thats something we call fat-client in ltsp. since we want it fully integrated with all parts of the system (i.e. the server needs a proper network authentication service the clients can connect to and home direcories need to be mounted from there in a safe way ...) so it takes a bit longer to implement it the right way (right way mans wer need to be able to support it even in very big deployments) but it is on the list [1] as well in ubuntu/edubuntu as also upstream in ltsp :) gutsy gibbon (7.10) is planned to have poper network authentication in ubuntu which we then will be able to use.
if you just want a netbooted diskless workstation, ltsp is able to give
you that with some manual fiddling since breezy ;)
if drbl is available in a porper packackage (or at least in a
packageable way) i'd suggest to contact ubuntu-motu so it gets into
universe :)
ciao
oli
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