Wow!!! This is fantastic news. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CyberOrg wrote: > Hello Community > > I am happy to announce yet another milestone of KIWI-LTSP development. > KIWI-LTSP is LTSP5 implementation in openSUSE using KIWI imaging > technology. > > Instructions to get you started are here: http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP > > Installation is still as simple as 1-click to install all the required > packages, one configuration file and one command kiwi-ltsp-setup -s. > > Developer's page, bug tracker, mailing lists: > http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/KIWI-LTSP > > We won an award in the process of working on this project :) > http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm and > http://www.openitis.com/openitis/project_view.php?id=130, this > motivated me to fill up gsoc organization application.. > > There are tons of improvements all around. Some of the enhancements are : > > * Improved performance, now clients with as little as 128M ram would > be able to work. > * Image sizes are greatly reduced, resulting in less build time and > low resource requirement on the client. > * New LDM theme and shiny new logo thanks to BiswajyotiM. > * New package ltsp-server that installs all the configuration files > and scripts required to run on the server. > * It is now possible to select language and session from LDM (earlier > ldm used nc command in stead of netcat) > * lts.conf moved out of chroot image, this will allow you to change > anything that that config without having to re-create squashfs image. > * If you want any other configuration files to be served they can be > put in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI and enter it in /srv/tftpboot/config.MAC(or > config.default), see /usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi/kiwi.pdf for more > information. > * This is the first release that has packages built for openSUSE > Factory, openSUSE 10.3 and Fedora 8. On Fedora of course you need to > use your local image building tools that Warren has been working on. > * Couple of switches are added to kiwi-ltsp-setup commandline tool to > facilitate power users to build/configure selected component. > * Local media such as USB disks and CD/DVD now automatically mount, > they show up in /tmp/.$USER-ltspfs. If you want them to show up on > your desktop instead, SUID /usr/bin/lbmount. > * We now use PulseAudio for sound, everything should work out of box > without any configuration, however flash or any videos will suck bad. > > Known Issue: > > * Local hard disk does not mount for some reason > * Does not boot clients with less than 128M ram > > Thank you shaefi - KIWI developer, ogra, vagrantc, gadi, warren and > all the LTPS developers and captain_magnus - KIWI-LTSP co-developer. > > Have fun with it, and do share your wishes and report bugs of which I > am sure will be plenty. > > Apologies for posting on so many groups and if you get this more than one. > > -J > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
