On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:35:12AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > > Gee, and we're probably Ugly too! :-)
I'm sure you're not so ugly. > By the way - you misspelled the word "the" as "he" in the last line > of your "bottles of beer" phrase. Thanks. > > (Am I picking nits? Yes. Why? Because you're whining about how hard this > is for you and how lousy a job a bunch of largely UNPAID volunteers are > doing when the real problem is your lack of general knowledge about > different computing architectures as well as the fact that MOST of > what your complaining about is primarily subjective. Frankly the LTSP > folks have done and continue to do a great job. (Just my subjective > perspective :-) ) ) Actually, I am a fairly knowledgeable Unix user. I have built networks before, I have built computers, etc. I am not a guru by any stretch of the immagination, but something like LTSP should definitely lie within my skill level. I am also sure that LTSP is great software. It's the documentation I'm frustrated with. Finally, good documentation is not nearly as subjective as you might imagine. I know because I have spent a lot of time learning about how to write documentation, and I AM a fairly good documentation writer. > > Ok - enough sniping at each other. Sure. I SHOULD have been more careful when expressing my frustration. > > Here I'll reach ALL the way out to my keyboard and go to google for > you: > > LTSP is primarily about thin clients: (aka "diskless workstation") Yes, I knew that. But thanks. I know about the basic benefits of thin clients, and I've used them before. That's why I want to suggest to our computer comitte that in moving to Linux we go for a thin-client model. That's why I wen to LTSP. > How it actually works is superbly well explained step by step here > in the "Theory of operation" section of the LTSP 3.0 Documentation: > http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0-4-en.html#AEN53 I read that. It provided some useful information, but it is an example of not seeing the forest for the trees. That is the problem I find, over all, with the LTSP documentation. > See also at the The Linux documentation project: www.tldp.org > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Thinclient-HOWTO.html > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Remote-Boot.html Thanks, I didn't know of those links. BTW, at first sight, that looks like well-written documentation. It is at least easy to browse and easy on the eyes. I can't comment on the content yet. I'll read it after I'm done with my email. > Net Layout: > > > Client 1 --| > Client 2 --| > Client 3 --|------ethernet to LTSP server NIC 1--| > Client . --| | > Client . --| | > Client N --| | > | > | > |-----------------| | > | LTSP Server |-----------| > | | > | | > | | > | | > |-----------------| > | > ethernet from LTSP Server > NIC 2 to rest of LAN, > or internet, enterprise > router - what have you. Wow! ASCII art. You really went the extra mile here. Thanks. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | Aleph-0 bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-0 bottles PhD student. | of beer. Take one down, pass it around, Aleph-0 Math Dept. | bottles of beer on the wall... UMD. | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Aleph-0.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
