On 4/24/07, James Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
to all interested in thin clients\ LTSP, please join us in #opensuse-kiwi @irc.freenode.net around 9 am EST tomorrow to help establish a plan of attack, that way we can catch cyberorg and some of the other Kiwi \ thin client technicians...including on occasion glunardi.
Err, what's that in UTC/GMT ? OK, here is the status : 1. LTSP 5 is a completely new approach than 4.2 so there will be no tarballs to get anymore. What is in place of tarball are some scripts. 2. One of the script creates chroot environment using Distro's own packages, benefit of that is LTSP does not have to package/maintain that chrooted distro. We have got KIWI which can do this job, we can look at how we can do that. 3. Other scripts of interest are ltsp-client-setup and ltsp-client scripts which I believe does all the mounting and sharing/exporting local devices. These scripts would need to be modified to make them suitable for SUSE. Probably we can get udev rules setup to do that. 4. Scripts can be fetched from here: bzr get http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ogra/ltsp/feisty-ltsp Many of them might be Ubuntu specific, so someone would have to go through them and see what we can use as it is, use after modification and write our own. 5. I experimented with kiwi, created a chroot image, used ltsp provided pexboot kernel and initrd and was successful in loging in to the server using xdmcp client on the terminal. 6. LTSP no longer uses xdmcp, but ldm (ltsp display manager) which uses X over ssh. We will need re-brand it SUSE specific. 7. Jammcq and Ogra would be more than happy to help and has invited any SUSE hacker who wants to work on LTSP5 to the weeklong LTSP hackfest starting 23 July In short here are the pending tasks: 1. Go through ltsp-client scripts and adapt for our purpose 2. Create kiwi-ltsp-desc package that users can use to create ltsp chroot (I can do 0.0.1 release, needs a lot of work after that :) ) 3. Rebrand ldm (should be easy) 4. Create an easy to use deployment script/GUI (YaST module?) 5. Look into Ubuntu/debian ltsp administration tools and adapt them for SUSE 6. Can we aim to complete the integration by 10.3 release? I am not a coder, so I would not be able to do heavy duty coding/scripting, I would be able to help doing just a basic scripting, packaging and testing. Cheers -J -- CyberOrg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
