Op dinsdag 26 september 2006 20:12, schreef Jim McQuillan:
> Well, you didn't mention which distro, so I can't give a firm answer on
> the MueKow support.  If you are looking at Debian or Ubuntu, then MueKow
> is the way to go.  if you are thinking about Fedora, then you'll have to
> wait a bit longer, as they are just getting started with the integration.
> (see http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Ltsp5 for details on the
> future of LTSP-5)

I'm interested I having ltsp5 supported in (open)suse.  When looking at the 
minimum requirements to support ltsp5, I believe that opensuse already 
fullfill most of these, and perhaps all.  Is it possible at state where 
opensuse fails the minimal requirements?

1 Booting thin clients via PXE and Etherboot 
2 Local devices using LTSPFS 
3 Network transparent multimedia (audio and video) 
4 Screen scripts, including XDMCP, ldm/sdm, rdesktop, telnet, shell 
5 Booting thin clients with as little as 32mb of system ram 
6 Use of LTSP scripts and utilities (getltscfg, et al) 
7 Passing of VCI string from the client to the server (in initramfs) 
8 Transparent pass-through printing 
9 Network swapping via NBD 
10 Ability to specify location of the LTSP chroot tree (default 
location: /opt/ltsp) 
11 Ability to control options per workstation using "lts.conf".

I think that 1 and 2 are supported out of the (opensuse) box.  
3 is that esd? I don't have experience with multimedia (MM) and ltsp.
4 Are these the /etc/init.d (rc.d) scripts?  What are ldm and sdm?
5 What does this (< 32MB) actually involve?  A special build kernel or might 
the default kernel provided by opensuse be used?
6 Aren't the LTSP scripts provided by ltsp and as such automatically used?
7 What are VCI strings?  Are those the strings on the bootprompt?
8 Transparent pass through printing, is that the printing via port 9100?
9 Is that working in opensuse?
10 I have ltsp-4.2 in /opt/ltsp/ltsp-4.2 why would this be more difficult in 
ltsp-5?
11 same as 10, why should that not be possible in ltsp-5

I think that what it basically comes down to is the following question: what 
is provided by ltsp and what is to be provided by distribution precisely?  I 
mean all the above items are currently available, via the ltsp packages, and 
as such it is working in opensuse.

Any idea when ltsp 5 might be available (2, 5 months from now)?  I know it 
will be a rough guess and things may be months later than desired. 

-- 
Richard Bos
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