If you are going to run LTSP servers on alpha machines, that should generally not give any problems. LTSP -on the server side- is basically dhcp, tftp-, nfs-daemons and a running XDMCP server.Has anyone heard of or actually installed LTSP on an Alpha? I have a number of 1U Alphas to play with and want to give LTSP a go. It will be running Debian Potato.
All those should be readily avialable with Debian, no matter which architecture you are going to use. Maybe the ltsp-install script won't even notice the difference.
All the binary content going to run on the clients is separate files in the initrd image and sub /opt/ltsp/i386 [which tells you which arch the client is].
For having those alpha as LTSP clients: That's a little more tricky I assume. I played with my neighbour's Mac G3 once, so I know: there's no i386 stuff going to run on those non-intel machines. If there's no contrib packages for that yet, you'll have to get your own stuff running. You can "steal" lost of good ideas how to setup this from LTSP.
Once again: For LTSP server on alpha, no problem I assume.
Regards,
Anselm
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