> It would be great if I could site other examples of non-profit > organizations who > are using LTSP. Any information that you can provide me on > who is using LTSP > would be great. I'd rather not go into the conference with my > only examples > of LTSP users being me at work and me at home.
Usage situation 1: X terminals in an engineering environment Half dozen permanent LTSP clients and a couple dozen part time clients. The clients boot to the XDMCP chooser so the user can select among a dozen or so servers that have different combinations of engineering and productivity applications installed. The part time clients are single-boot Windows, with a desktop icon for VNC that indirects and provides exactly the same XDMCP chooser activity inside a Windows frame. When the user needs full X performance with 3D acceleration and none of the overhead of the Micrsoft OS, an Etherboot floppy invokes LTSP. Side note: Why so many servers and so few user client stations ? Most engineering work occurs using text-only sessions under SSH so legacy Windows and Linux desktops use putty or ssh respectively. Obviously, as those legacy machines become relatively underpowered for independent use, they get converted into dedicated LTSP clients. Usage situation 2: Hardware development When developing software that operates computer-attached hardware, differences in computer chassis easily impact performance/capabilities. LTSP lets every hardware controlling PC ... (a) be a convenient terminal from which to control the test (b) immediately receive software updates via the NFS filesystem (c) easily switch kernel versions from a central repository Neither of these are standard uses for LTSP, of course. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
