-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess? From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, September 09, 2008 2:07 pm To: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Scott, I can assure you that new thin clients have problems too... I have unsuccessfully tried setting up 3 labs, HP DL360 (2) quad core and 8GB RAM, (30) HP T5530 clients. I have spent countless hours/days trying to work out all of the problems. Everything looked great with one client, then I started running into problems with multiple clients booting. I applied the DirectX setting, tried all DHCP settings to no avail, ran all updates, still not reliable. I have since gone back to ole faithful, K12LTSP CentOS ver. 5. Run all updates and everything has worked like a charm:) The CentOS ver 5 will be supported until 2014, so I don't see any problems. As far as the desktop, that is easily changed/configured. Ron McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conecuh County Schools Technology Coordinator -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess? From: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, September 09, 2008 1:51 pm To: "Edubuntu Users Group" <[email protected]> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Asmo Koskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HP t5125, 5135. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-472257.html http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3341342.html Edubuntu has had an adverse and destructive effect on the adoption of Free and Open Source Software in schools. I think Asmo is the only person who has had success with Ubunut/Edubuntu, and the brand new clients are a factor. Many of us use older computers as thin clients. The Ubu/Edu documentation has been inconsistent on what thin clients are supported. I have not yet looked at the LTS.CONF file for Hardy, but it is likely a culprit in performance. The question is what to do now. Eric Harrison is not as active with the K12LTSP - and the K12LTSP is no more - it is becoming a Fedora Spin with RedHat sponsorship. Warren Togami, fedora founder, is actively involved with this. It is not ready for production, but bugs are being sought and squashed. Debian-edu, aka Skolelinux, has a responsive mailing list, polite developers, and a community will to do good in a responsible way. Perhaps Ubuntu would be wise to build on this element of the Debian community, too. The Hardy problems existed in Feisty. 7.04 was the only acceptable thin-client server release. *NOTHING* critical in 7.10 appears to have been addressed in 8.04 in spite of the heavy volume of traffic on this list. Until someone upstream in the Ubu/Edu projects takes a pro-active and cooperative stance, Canonical will continue to abuse the good work of its education predecessors by falsely claiming to have a community-based solution without the community. I still volunteer to run the lab that prompted Warren to start the Fedora project in Hawaii. It was a thin client lab until we moved to 7.10. This completely destroyed the school's taste for thin clients. Now we use stand-alone workstations with central authentication. --scott -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
