On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, David Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote: > All great advice, but again, ltspfatclient does not work on hardy, so > if you want that, you have to upgrade to Ibex... >
Interesting. Can you tell me in brief why it does not work in Hardy? Sameer > 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 > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
