Sounds great! ...Im just worried about the CD-ROMs low speed compared to the hard disk though 8/
But I still see a great potential to reduce hard disk use even more 8) --- Tom Griffing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > I was pleasantly surprised at the Knoppix CD-Rom. > I booted it and was testing things and saw the > "Terminal Server" entry in the menus. > > I clicked it and entered a few network parameters > and Wa-La! The Terminal Server was running from a > CD-ROM and the thin client was running a full-blown > Knoppix session, complete with OpenOffice, games > educational software and so on (lots of "so on" > here). > > It got me to thinking that in larger installations, > the servers don't need to be especially smart and > could be configured to boot from CD-ROMs, mount > NFS partitons for persistant data (/home) and use > LDAP for authentication. This would greatly reduce > administration for large-scale deployment. > > Any thoughts on this? Is there already a software > bundle for this? > > Tom > > > > From: Tom Lisjac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: LTSP Discuss List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Organization: > > Date: 06 Dec 2002 00:02:14 -0700 > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Knoppix... > > > > > > I just came across an interesting interview with > Klaus Knopper on > > OSNews. Toward the bottom of the first page he > talks about Knoppix forks > > and says: "I know that a LTSP fork is using a > Knoppix version"... > > > > Does anyone know where this distribution can be > found? Google didn't > > have anything useful on "LTSP Knoppix". > > > > Here's a link to the full article: > > > > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2305&page=1 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas L. Griffing Red Hat Certified > Engineer > Pondus Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
