All great advice, but again, ltspfatclient does not work on hardy, so if you want that, you have to upgrade to Ibex...
David On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Jordan Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > I use Hardy for all of my Ubuntu/LTSP/Edubuntu sites (9 total so far). I > agree with you 100% on your stance regarding sticking with a longer release > cycle. I see no reason to move to Ibex. I did the quick release cycle thing > in the Dapper -> Gutsy days, before I learned about SRUs and backports. It > takes some elbow grease to get new features/bugfixes into LTS, but that's > what we, the community, chime in to accomplish, no? For example, I am > currently involved in SRUing the infamous Firefox 3 entropy issue to Hardy. > The fix was released for Jaunty. It actually kinda makes me laugh to even > hear about Jaunty, but IANAP and obviously they need to think way further > ahead than I do in regards to releases. > > Take a look at these links for more information. Again, IMHO, and with > administrating 9 *buntu LTSP sites, Hardy is the sensible, sane choice. > Nobody that administrates a larger number of systems has time for a 6 month > release cycle when you're trying to sustain a stable environment. Luckily, > with *buntu, you can choose either route. > > http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/ > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > > > Cheers, > Jordan/Lns > > > john wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> David I was under the impression that Hardy was the current LTS >> release of Ubuntu/Edubuntu. From my point of view (school tech person) >> a stable, supported version of LTSP is more useful than the a more >> rapidly moving one. As the person who supports not only LTSP but all >> of the other network stuff that happens in a school district I don't >> have the resources to rebuild/test/re-intigrate ubuntu every release >> cycle. What are your thoughts? >> >> John >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM, David Van Assche <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Sameer Veerma, >>> You shuold be using intrepid Ibex. Many changes happend in Hardy >>> which I haven't had the time to support. It works just fine under >>> intrepd ibex 8.10. If you run into trouble, u can find me lounging on >>> #edubuntu and #ltsp. I'll gladlly make it work for you. >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> David (nubae) Van Assche >>> www.nubae.com >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Sameer Verma <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hello everybody, >>>> >>>> We've had a LTSP lab for a while now, but it runs on Gutsy. We are >>>> planning to redo the server with a newer base and try out the >>>> fatclient setup. >>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients What I'd >>>> like to ping the community on is whether to use Hardy (8.04 LTS) with >>>> backports or use Intrepid (8.10). Our main reason to look at Hardy is >>>> the LTS aspect. >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> Sameer >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems >>>> San Francisco State University >>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA >>>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
