Andrew Ziem wrote: >> Official support for LTSP 4.2 is pretty much gone. >> > Any interest in compiling the latest X.org for LTSP 4.2? Probably not, > but I had to ask. :) > > I can relate to what you're experiencing with your Dells. I'm running a few HP:s and they have similar symptoms on various issues.
This is IMHO / two cents worth / you-can-ignore-my-mad-blabbering: 4.2 to 5.0 is way too big jump. 5.0 requires some level of support in the distro itself. The support may come from distro vendor or from a 3rd party. Ok, Ubuntu/Debian is the most popular distro there is, but what about rest 70% of us? The guys at LTSP are doing a great job, but this current development of "must-have-Ubuntu" makes me wanna spit! End-of-mad-blabbering. The only reasonable thing to do is to extend support for 4.2 somehow. Project's resources are tied up into 5.0 so, the only viable thing would be to create a spin-off project. This, however, is likely to fail due to lack of developer interest. A working community is required and building one is not that easy. In my imagination a spin-off LTSP 4.3 could be done if at least five able and willing developers could be found to collaborate. That would mean: - improving already abandoned LBE (the LTSP build environment / cross-compiler) - making LBE to run on GCC 4.x - upgrading LBE parts, glibc, binutils - making LBE run properly on various distros Ubuntu / RHEL / Fedora / SuSE / Gentoo / etc. - upgrading LTSP software - latest X, latest kernel, latest Perl, latest Samba, latest <name your favorite part> I¨m not calling a mutiny here. This does not mean any disrespect to project or developers and their decisions. All I'm saying is that I cannot go to the direction they're pointing to and there is pretty much nothing I can do about it. Regards, Jari Turkia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
