Just succeeded in putting up by hand LTSP on Slackware 9.0, now I have some questions on the following matter. I did put this LTSP server on my relatively slow laptop, and my clients are faster. The project I work upon I call laptopondope. For I want to convert available Desktop PC's to be helpers for my laptop. I know, it's like LTSP going the other way round, but it has a promissing future. The idea is that laptops will stay behind Desktops as far as PCU and memory concerns for long time to go. Now I'm able to use my laptop in a far faster way than before. I lounch KDE on a Desktop and let it display on my laptop. When I'm at home. But the laptop is portable, and so is my LTSP server. So where ever I go I take a floppy. And wherever I connect to a network, I look around for not used Desktops., find out it's network card, write a netbootfloppy on my laptop and let the Desktop boot from it. It's a nice way to let the hard work be done by all availible PC's. By using Desktops for the hard work, I spare battery, so I can work longer on my laptop. And speed is much! faster compared with a single laptop use, without helping Desktops. And it's completely portable, as portable as a laptop and a single floppydisk. There are problems too, that's why I ask. The laptop has limited storage. I don't want to copy my entire OS to the LTSP root directory. How far can one go with soft-links? I use the clients from my server, I want all data to go back to my server/laptop, and I want to let the clients( Desktops) do the work alone. How to manage this, now I use commands like xhost + Desktop, rlogin Desktop, export DISPLAY= laptop. I let the client run applications locally, but I have to configure every program in my LTSP root directory. I mean, it's rather clumsy. Anyone interested in finding out the best solution? Any tips? Because laptopondope is the way to go! Wireless, and faster than the fastest Desktop on the network. Its system reminds me of clustering, but the involved teqnnique different.
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