Ernesto Freyre G. wrote: > Hi all, I am from Cuba. My country is recently deploying thousands of > thin clients in institutions and government. A great idea but poorly > executed. The clients have a Celeron processor, 256Mb RAM and 15" flat > displays. The servers come pre-installed with Windows Server 2000 and > some network booted Windows XP software, all this in a small 1Gb RAM for > a proportion of 10 to 1 (10 clients per server). > > I am an Ubuntu user since Hoary, so, I managed to install Ubuntu Server > 8.04 and LTSP 5 on the servers. > > My setup is simple, I use fat clients, first with NFS, which gave me > some problems eventually losing performance. So I switch to NBD. NBD has > better performance, plus I can now start services like samba with shared > printer (for printing in a Terminal Server using a legacy app to the > user's printer connected to his/her client). I also use NBD swap (which > is a must in this setup) > If your clients have 256MB of RAM, then I don't think you need any swap.
> I still need some extras, like audio support, I have to download the > latest ALSA packages and compiled in the client, to do this, I will need > Read-Write access on the NBD image. > To add software to the client, you need to do the following: 1) sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 2) apt-get update && apt-get install yourpackages or optionally compile your packages 3) exit 4) sudo ltsp-update-image This will build a new image that contains all the changes you made when you were in the chroot environment. -Rob ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
