Re: DRBL and Technology

hi, Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2010, 19:23 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Carter (highvoltage): > I looked at the DRBL docs, and couldn't see anything it provides that > ltsp fat clients doesn't already do. Could you elaborate on why you > believe that it's a "no-brainer"? last time i looked at DRBL (which is a

Re: Teachers and Edubuntu and more

hi, Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 19:45 -0600 schrieb Scott Balneaves: > >1. a new irc eg "#edubuntu-in-action", > > This one I'm not so sure of. I'm certainly more than happy to try this and > see, but I'd want to be in both #edubuntu and #edubuntu-in-action. I suspect > most teachers would al

Re: Do you upgrade your chroot?

hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 20:46 -0800 schrieb Steve Rippl: > We edit gconf directly to adjust some other things... > gconftool-2 --direct --config-source > xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool > --set /desktop/gnome/file_views/show_backup_files Fal

Re: Edubuntu Council Elections

hi, Am Samstag, den 12.12.2009, 15:00 -0600 schrieb David Groos: > OK I'll ask. > > When I get to the linked page on previous email and see the line such > as: ed-council-personx-yes" what do I do to register an opinion? you become an edubuntu-member first, see [1] :) (that should btw really be

Re: languages in LTSP chroot

hi, Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 22:28 +0100 schrieb uwe: > thank you oli, > > another one in the same direction: I have installed some of the "K" > educational software KBruch, KGeometry, KAlgebra etc. but they are also > all in englisch. is the a specific language pack for those or a central

Re: languages in LTSP chroot

Am Freitag, den 13.11.2009, 13:47 +0100 schrieb uwe: > hello, > > we use german as the base language of our system. I recently install > Gimp as a localapp but found out that it is in english on the thin > clients. > > how can I change the language to german? > just install language-pack-gnome-d

Re: Hurray Stéphane!

hi, Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 18:34 +0200 schrieb uwe: > hello, > > I would be interested trying the ltsp cluster setup, but I cannot find > the ltsp-cluster package in the repositories. it was only included in the karmic repository, for former releases you need to use stephanes PPA ciao

Re: HELP!! how to prevent floppy mounts under Hardy/LTS

hi, Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 11:04 -0700 schrieb john: > Hi all, > > We're having a problem with lots of floppy icons showing up on users > desktops. Basically whenever a user logs on from a computer with a > floppy drive built in it is automagically mounted and shows up on ALL > users desktops.

Re: A quick way to add stuff to users setups which you should have done the 1st time right

hi, Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 16:48 -0400 schrieb Harry Sweet: > File::Copy::Recursive sudo apt-get install libfile-copy-recursive-perl will achieve the same without having to use out of system modules ... ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachric

Re: Next Meeting: Fri Sep 11 17:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting

hi, Am Samstag, den 12.09.2009, 07:18 -0400 schrieb Jordan Mantha: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:24 PM, David Groos wrote: > > Hi uwe and all, > > > > Not sure if this is what people are looking for, but about 3/4's of the way > > down this page is the log of the meeting-chat. > > http://irclogs.ub

Re: Did I take down the whole Middle School with NAT?

Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 23:08 -0400 schrieb ekul taylor: > On ubuntu the files to check are /etc/default/dhcp3-server you definately should not touch this file, specifying an interface there will disable the selfcheck of dhcpd on startup ... just make sure your dhcpd.conf has proper entires

Re: Email server tutorial

hi, Am Freitag, den 10.07.2009, 17:15 -0500 schrieb John Hansen: > I'm looking to rebuild our current email server and was wondering if anyone > has a good tutorial on how to do that, especially with the configurations. I'm > looking at using the following on 8.04 LTS. > Postfix, Dovecot, LDAP, Ama

Re: Wiki Cleanup: New Categories

On Fr, 2009-07-24 at 08:35 -0400, Ace Suares wrote: > Dear, > > I tried to divide the wiki pages in categories, here's what I got so far: > > Specs: > https://wiki.edubuntu.org/CategoryEdubuntuSpec > note that the specs are usually hardwired to blueprints on launchpad and should not be changed u

Re: Empty and not readable /etc/resolv.conf file

hi, Am Montag, den 06.04.2009, 17:25 +0300 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: > David Van Assche kirjoitti: > > > So take that out of ltsp-client-setup, and rebuild > > David, I did that - no luck. I'm sorry. > > 1. I removed few bits in /etc/resolv.conf > > admin-lt...@ubuntu-ltsp5:~$ cat /opt/ltsp/i386/e

Re: Empty and not readable /etc/resolv.conf file

hi, Am Montag, den 06.04.2009, 15:27 +0200 schrieb David Van Assche: > You could also use the lts.conf to set DNS_SERVER to whatever you want > for the thin client eeep ... wrong :) DNS_SERVER *and* SEARCH_DOAMIN need to be set both, else resolv.conf wont be touched by the bootscript ... (as the s

Re: New Eee Desktop

hi, Am Montag, den 02.03.2009, 14:16 + schrieb Daniel Hunt: > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/02/asus_eee_box_206/ > > Lovely looking machine wow, thats really expensive ... http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/200118.html?id=oiVwTSVi less bling in the design, but $100 cheape

Re: First try, Jaunty Alternate, a bug

hi, Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 19:41 +0200 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: > Lenny has a line for "USB sticks and other removable drives". Should > Jaunty had it too? no, note that debian uses a massively hacked up udev version while ubuntu uses the plain upstream version. you surely see a bug here and

Re: First try, Jaunty Alternate, a bug

hi, Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 15:37 +0200 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: > Oliver Grawert kirjoitti: > > > o...@osiris:~/Devel/packages/ltspfs-0.5.9$ dpkg > > --contents ../ltspfsd_0.5.9-0ubuntu1_i386.deb |grep ltspfsd.rules > > -rw-r--r-- root/root 532 2009-02-27 > &g

Re: First try, Jaunty Alternate, a bug

hi, Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 13:56 +0200 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: > Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: > > Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: > >> as...@ubuntu:/mnt/sdb3/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/udev/rules.d$ > > as...@ubuntu:/mnt/sdb3/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/udev/rules.d.8.04.2$ > > Things has changed. the rules should be in:

Re: looking for pointers groking ldm/rc.d scripts

hi, On Sa, 2009-02-14 at 18:44 -0800, john wrote: > I've tried to grok section 15.5 from the LTSP Admin Manual > www.ltsp.org/~sbalneav/LTSPManual.pdf but I am sorry to say it's just > too terse for me to understand. the infrastructure to support start and stop scripts in ldm was not there in hardy

Re: Edubuntu-Ltsp-Server-Installation not for beginners?

hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2008, 12:49 +0100 schrieb Luis Miguel R.: > El lunes, 10 noviembre del 2008 a las 07:58:01, Reiner Schmid escribió: > > Hello, > > > > I worked with all versions of Edu-Terminalservers (Dapper, Edge, Feisty, > > Gutsy, Hardy). And now I installed a new Intrepid-Terminal

Re: Set default session for thin clients on LTSP

hi, Am Freitag, den 24.10.2008, 08:22 -0400 schrieb Todd O'Bryan: > [default] > LDM_REMOTECMD = /usr/bin/startxfce4 LDM_REMOTECMD is obsoleted by LDM_SESSION,try that instead ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- edubuntu-users maili

Re: ltsp clients: menus

hi, Am Montag, den 13.10.2008, 21:17 +0200 schrieb Uwe Geercken: > hello, > > how do you handle the individual menus of the users, if e.g. you want > to add a shortcut for all users? > > could you point me to where I have to change it? one way is to copy one of the .desktop files in /usr/share/

Re: auto login

hi, Am Montag, den 13.10.2008, 21:19 +0200 schrieb Uwe Geercken: > the account exists. but the client with the max adress does not > autologin. I guess I have to specify more parameters, right? but where? try adding LDM_AUTOLOGIN=True as well ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies is

Re: 8.04 ltsp +slow

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2008, 17:47 -0700 schrieb Jordan Erickson: > Uwe, > > I just got back from a site and noticed a few things regarding NBD_SWAP > and the ltsp-client-setup script that lives in /etc/init.d in the > chroot. I have no idea if this is related, but it *does* hang the server

Re: Minimum client expectations, LTSP Triage

hi, On So, 2008-09-14 at 18:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Certainly, within some small spaces, we may be able to optimize > things, but the >bottom line is, that old 486 with 16 megs of memory simply isn't > going to work >as a thin client any more." > > Of course an old 486 wi

Re: moving forward with Ubuntu & Edubuntu -- One new club going online today

hi, On Do, 2008-09-11 at 09:51 -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote: > I agree that LTSP should be a set of packages that could be installed > into any flavor of Ubuntu. This would reach a broader spectrum of > existing Ubuntu users. Perhaps some sort of critical mass could be > reached where it really

Re: Installing LTSP from CD

hi, On Mo, 2008-09-08 at 14:53 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Eric Morey wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:34 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > > > I don't recommend putting this in the wiki, but I think this is the > > > answer you want. > > > > Why not? > > I shou

Re: Installing LTSP from CD

hi, On Mo, 2008-09-08 at 13:39 +, Eric Morey wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:34 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > I don't recommend putting this in the wiki, but I think this is the > > answer you want. > > > > Why not? we usually want that page to be as clean and short as possible with

Re: Installing LTSP from CD

hi, On Mo, 2008-09-08 at 02:17 -0700, David Ally wrote: > Hi All, > > Please let's make this information complete, on the link below, it > started with installing fresh from CD, but did not say anything about > installing LTSP on a system that already has Ubuntu on it from CD. The > command given

Re: what to do with denemo

hi, On Di, 2008-08-12 at 16:31 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > Jordan Mantha kirjoitti: > > > Perhaps we should consider dropping denemo in favor of another app? > > Denemo has 17 open bugs in Debian and 8 in Ubuntu. Is it a often used > > app? Would people miss it? Are there any good alternatives?

Re: how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

hi, On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a user > logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but that > doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow > by-passing the stuff I p

new documentation team

hi, sorry for the crosspost... during the hackfest we started an effort of getting the documantation into better shape, we have: a) created a team and branch on launchpad that is related directly to the code branches: team: https://launchpad.net/~ltsp-docwriters docbook code: https://code.launch

Re: making Edubuntu a bit easier to download: request for tweak on http://www.edubuntu.org/Download page

hi, Am Dienstag, den 15.07.2008, 10:22 -0700 schrieb john: > 1. Get the Ubuntu 8.04.1 Alternate CD - Don't forget to select the > "Desktop Edition" release and tick the checkbox for the alternate > desktop CD on the download page! That sounds a lot better indeed ... the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Har

Re: Changing the thin client login theme on Hardy

Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 18:18 -0700 schrieb Mickey Moore: > My ultimate goal is to change the thin client login background and logo to > one specific to our school. I find I am unable even to switch from the > default ubuntu theme to the edubuntu theme. I have read an FAQ about this > that

Re: USB printing /usr/bin/jetpipe not found

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 21.05.2008, 09:25 -0400 schrieb Craig E. Szymanski: > Does anyone have any ideas? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224259 sorry for that bug, there are instructions included for a workaround, the fix will be in before 8.04.1 ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies i

Re: Maximum Addressable RAM

hi, Am Samstag, den 17.05.2008, 14:06 +0800 schrieb Butch Arias: > But if we will add more thin clients then we would need more than 4 GB > RAM (RAM - 512 MB Server, 128MB per thin client). In this case I > believe we need to use the 64-bit version the fact that the i386 could > address only up to

Re: clients locked out was Re: OpenSSL vulnerability

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2008, 12:17 -0700 schrieb john: > I ran the ssl upgrade provided via package manager on my dev-box > running Hardy and rebooted and found my thin clients locked out. > Bummer. Glad I didn't apply this against a production box. to populate the client filesystem with new s

Re: ITALC and ltsp

hi, Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2008, 07:20 +0200 schrieb francois: > Did someone use ITALC on edubuntu ltsp ? > > http://italc.sourceforge.net/ i hoe so, since we install the client by defult with edubuntu-desktop and italc-master is on the addon-cd as the default classroom management software. cia

Re: video settings from ltsp4.2 dont work in Hardy

hi, Am Dienstag, den 06.05.2008, 18:18 +0200 schrieb Kai Wollweber: > X_SERVER = geode how about trying again without underscore here ? ;) ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.u

Re: video settings from ltsp4.2 dont work in Hardy

hi, Am Montag, den 05.05.2008, 20:11 +0200 schrieb Kai Wollweber: > Hello, > > in one classroom we use a bunch of older igel terminals. On LTSP 4.2. they > work fine with XDMCP and the following configuration from lts.conf: > > [igel1] > X_SERVER = nsc > X_COLOR_DEPTH = 16 >

Re: Consensus seems to be building Hardy Heron slow as molasses

hi, Am Sonntag, den 04.05.2008, 13:14 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Carter: >DIRECTX=true that would be LDM_DIRECTX=True ;) but i really suspect a compiz issue, since most people report its working fine but some seem to have issues ... it would be nice to know what kind of graphics cards are in th

Re: Consensus seems to be building Hardy Heron slow as molasses

hi, Am Samstag, den 03.05.2008, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert: > so no, we wont go back, if theer are issues in ltsp5 lets fix them > instead of going back to stoneage ;) indeed that needs testers to > communicate to developers *before* a release. just to extend that sentence, t

Re: Consensus seems to be building Hardy Heron slow as molasses

hi, Am Freitag, den 02.05.2008, 13:21 -0700 schrieb john: > I run a dev box where I try out the latest LTSP stuff before adding it > to our school districts LTSP environment. > I recently upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy and I have to say Hardy is > noticeably slower. what graphics card is in the serve

Re: [K12OSN] Poor flash 9.0.155.0 performance solved

hi, Am Dienstag, den 08.04.2008, 12:52 +1200 schrieb Krsnendu dasa: > This latest version includes hardware acceleration > which is a great idea > for stand alone desktops with average to modern > graphics cards. It's a >

call for spec suggestions

hi, as we're nearing the release its about time to collect some input on educational specs to work on in intrepid ibex (8.10) as you might have noticed edubuntu changed a lot in hardy ... i.e. things that are definately server related (network auth for example or most parts of ltsp ) will in

Re: Does Add-on turn Desktop into Server?

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 02.04.2008, 00:55 +0300 schrieb Ville Pöntinen: > "With more or less than two NICs the LTSP part of the installer will > tell you what to modify." > Does the installer (with F4 pressed) install DHCP-server > automatically? it does, but will only configure and start it by defa

Re: About HP T5000 on Edubuntu 7.10 and Hardy 8.04

hi, Am Donnerstag, den 27.03.2008, 19:56 +0200 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: > Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: > > > > Just before T5000 flashes green screen it says this as error message: > > > > memory size detection failed what happens if you set X_VIDEO_RAM=16384 in lts.conf for these devices ? ciao

Re: Remote shut down and Firefox

hi, Am Freitag, den 21.03.2008, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Ismail ISLEYEN: > I use EDUBUNTU 7.10 and I have three problems with it. > > 1. What should I do to shut down the clients remotely? The server and > the clients have been placed on different floors. i have put a proof of concept wikipage a while

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

hi, Am Dienstag, den 26.02.2008, 09:35 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch: > If you have any other tips please let me know. that looks a bit like you try to use nfs here, unlike the squashfs/unionfs setup the rootfs wont be writeable if you dont add dirs and files to the bind_mounts variables used from

Re: game (clown) for very young children?

hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.02.2008, 08:15 + schrieb alan c: > > Does any one know of this game and its availability? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search clown circuslinux - The clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points! sounds like that one ;) ciao oli signature.asc Descrip

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 16:06 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch: > I am wondering if there is any reason one couldn't install a workstation as > normal, > tweak things, then copy the workstation directories over to the server into > /opt/ltsp/lf_i386? I think this is how it is recommended to

Re: EDUBUNTO DHCP Server Not Working Correctly

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 16:05 -0800 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > does anyone have any > idea what is wrong or how i can troubleshoot this? can you send us the output of: ifconfig -a and your /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf ? the dhcpd config needs to match a static IP from /etc/network/interfaces d

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 22:38 +0100 schrieb David Van Assche: > Hi Alexander, >It takes up as much space as you need it to. It really depends on > what files you have installed, but calculate that a XFCE based chroot > with open office, firefox, and various multimedia tools will probab

Re: FYI: bvnc, vinagre and Edubuntu 8.04

On Mi, 2008-01-30 at 21:34 +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > FYI. > > On the Edubuntu 8.04 (I'm testing Alpha 3 x86_64) there are some > alternatives for remote desktops to use with Thin Client Manager. It is > now real easy to help pupil online. > not sure you saw that mail [1], the edubuntu clas

Re: AW: ltsp-update-image

hi, On Mi, 2008-01-30 at 11:12 +0100, Anton Kaser wrote: > -sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 update-initramfs -u did you update teh kernel package in the chroot at some point ? could it be that update-initramfs updates teh wrong version ? you can try to force the version with -k for that command, chek t

Re: TCM Works! (Re: thin client manager)

hi, On Mo, 2008-01-28 at 17:12 -0500, Charles Austin wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008 2:21 PM, Asmo Koskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: > > > Charles Austin kirjoitti: > > > > > >> sudo ltsp-update-image this command is only available and used in gutsy (7.10) and onwards ... pe

Re: How to mass create users

hi, On Mi, 2008-01-23 at 10:33 -0800, Joseph Hartman wrote: > I've been reading a lot of recommendations for giving each student > their own account on the terminal server but I am loathe to go through > the user creation process dozens of times for each class. Is there a > mass user creation metho

Re: locking down the desktop

hi, On Mo, 2008-01-21 at 20:33 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > This is untested and might need some tweaks but it should recreate the home > directory. You can put it into /etc/init.d/ and link it into /etc/rcS.d/ > so it runs on every boot. i would rather run it through an /etc/xdg/autostart/

Re: locking down the desktop

hi, On So, 2008-01-20 at 09:58 -0500, Barb Tabor wrote: > I am having trouble finding out to prevent students from saving to the > desktop (using Gutsy). > Any suggestions? the simple answer is: you cant but what you can do is: sudo gconf-editor go to: /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_deskto

Re: AW: ubuntu LTSP move done ... testers wanted

hi, On Sa, 2008-01-19 at 18:07 +0100, Reiner Schmid wrote: > After a small walk and some oxygen I thought about that users had to be in > different groups to work with devices. > The bug of the Users Administration tool forced me to add a new (second) user > by the command useradd. But of course

Re: AW: ubuntu LTSP move done ... testers wanted

hi, On Sa, 2008-01-19 at 13:03 +0100, Reiner Schmid wrote: > Hi > > part 2 of testing http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/20080118/ > > When I started my 2 test clients (Siemens Scovery XS) at the same time only > one passed through to ldm screen. The other stopped after ~20 seconds with a

Re: AW: ubuntu LTSP move done ... testers wanted

hi, On Fr, 2008-01-18 at 19:17 +0100, Reiner Schmid wrote: > Hello, > > I want to tell you my first impressions of testing > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/20080118/ > thanks a lot for the feedback, its really helpful :) > First prob: My IDE-hard disk was recognized as a SCSI hard disk (???)

Re: 10-Key pad not functional at login

hi, On Fr, 2008-01-18 at 12:49 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > I did find this info https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock but it doesn't > appear to > work for thin clients. I installed on the server, not in /opt/ltsp/i386. > Maybe this is > the problem. right, install it in the client chroo

ubuntu LTSP move done ... testers wanted

hi all, people that follow the edubuntu development (in the IRC channel or at the weekly edubuntu meetings) will have noticed that the edubuntu-server iso will go away with the hardy release and instead all ltsp bits move to the ubuntu-alternate iso while edubuntu itself will become an addon CD to

Re: two servers: dhcp priority

hi, On Do, 2008-01-17 at 13:20 +0100, Uwe Geercken wrote: > as you are talking about dhcp. when you have two dhcp servers in one > network, which one is picked up first. the one that replies first its totally unpredictable which one that is as this is influenced by the network load, response

Re: AW: ltsp-update-image

hi, On Di, 2008-01-15 at 00:30 +0100, Anton Kaser wrote: > But the changes in ltsp-nbd seemed to be ignored. > How can I be sure, the ltsp-nbd Script is taken für the update?? you can boot with the kerneloption break= in your pxe config file where the values are either "top", "premount" or "bottom

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

hi, On Mi, 2008-01-09 at 10:15 -0800, Richard Doyle wrote: > LTSP_VERSION=5.0.39 you dont need to keep LTSP_VERSION, its a placeholder to make getltscfg quiet on boot (it moans if it finds a file without content) ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message pa

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

hi, On Di, 2008-01-08 at 10:33 -0800, Richard Doyle wrote: > We upgraded our lab from Feisty to Gutsy over the last couple of weeks. > All was working well until I noticed that no more than one client could > use local usb drives, as described in bug 160240 > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sou

Re: ltsp-update-image

hi, On Mo, 2008-01-07 at 20:19 -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > I'm getting an error about port 2000 already being set when I try to > ltsp-update-image. My server is AMD64, but the clients are i386, so I > ran does it actually say "Error:" ? ciao oli signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Re: ltsp-update-image

hi, On Fr, 2008-01-04 at 12:52 +0100, Anton Kaser wrote: > I still keep trying to get changes from the ltsp-nbd into the Client-Image > > I did the following: > > change the /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/ltsp-nbd right ... > copied it to and as /opt/ltsp/i386/initrd/nfs > ran

Re: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

hi, On Mi, 2007-12-12 at 07:52 -0500, Alfred Nutile wrote: > Then the link > http://fridge.ubuntu.com/event > Takes you to a caledar that does not have one meeting for Edu? > But again I will be there. the fridge team has some technical problems (most of the general ubuntu meetings dont show up eit

Re: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

hi, On Di, 2007-12-11 at 19:21 -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > I use LTSP in a high school, but I got annoyed with Edubuntu and > switched to Ubuntu with the LTSP package installed. It seemed to be > more stable, at least as of 6.10 and 7.04. its funny to hear that since its identical, ubuntu uses the

Re: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

hi, On Mi, 2007-12-12 at 10:09 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > I have been trialling Edubuntu LTSP on-and-off for the last couple of > years, and every experience has been nothing short of painful. It's been > riddled with bugs, visual glitches, incomplete documentation, and is > generally of inferio

Re: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

hi, On Di, 2007-12-11 at 08:14 -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > I am very disillusioned with Edubuntu, the leadership (or lack thereof) how many of the weekly meetings did you attend yet ? we welcome everybody to participate, thats the place where we discuss all changes https://wiki.ubunt

Re: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

hi, On Di, 2007-12-11 at 23:12 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > My biggest frustration is finding items on the wiki. Seems like > there's a lot of good information available, but I never found an easy > way to scan the wiki pages. I miss good old manuals. With chapters > and sections, logically orga

Re: "Default" session in LDM not logging in, only gnome-session works

hi, On Di, 2007-12-11 at 12:52 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > If I log in with LDM, and I don't select a session to log in with (or > select the Default session in the selector), after I enter my > username/password, the screen goes blank (indicating this is not an SSH > problem), and after about 5

Re: LTSP chroot updates

hi, 2007/12/10, Bob Wooden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > With the number of general updates (Firefox, CUPS, etc.) that are being > issued for Ubuntu, comes this question. How often should an > administrator update LTSP chroot? Or is this no longer an issue with > LTSP5? > > (F.Y.I. I am running Ubuntu

Re: edu on vmware

hi, On Fr, 2007-12-07 at 16:26 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But isent ubuntu joes bulit to be faster on vmware then a regular ubuntu ? > > And that should increase de perfomance if a install edu in topp. > > You must know something I

Re: want to ask about VIA/S3G Unichrome IGP Pro

hi, On Do, 2007-12-06 at 10:10 +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Did the vesa driver work at least? Unfortunately, support for the > Unichrome chipsets aren't very good at the moment. I made the mistake of > buying a motherboard with this chipset as well. Many new motherboards > ship

Re: Restricted Drivers Menu -- Server Kernel

hi, On Do, 2007-11-29 at 10:31 -0500, Tom Misilo wrote: > Well it is a server so why wouldn't I want to use that. Also the > motherboard can support up to 12GB of memory so I figure that would be > the kernel to use. no? > > I am trying to enable the 915resolution driver on an ltsp client (my > In

awesome video series about edubuntu

hi, i just stumbled over a totally awesome video series about using edubuntu in libraries, i collected links to the 9 videos on https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuVideoIntroduction but am missing teh time to put much more text on it atm, probably someone wants to step up do add some flesh between t

Re: Only One Thin Client Mounts Local Devices (Was: RE: My Negative Gutsy Experience)

hi, On Do, 2007-11-22 at 18:21 +0300, Denis Melnikov wrote: > Now we have fresh installation of 7.10. > > > > 1) Local devices stopped mounting. thats likely the bug below https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/160420 there is a workaround explained on the bug, fixed packages for guts

Re: Edubuntu routing question -- from external to internal (fwd)

hi, On Di, 2007-11-20 at 12:52 -0500, Tom Wolfe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to allow access from the eth1 subnet (external) to the eth0 subnet > (ineternal/Thin Client) > > I have a route set up on the external network (192.168.192.0/255.255.252.0) > as > follows: > > route add -net 192.168.1

Re: Thin Client Manager problems

hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.11.2007, 20:47 -0800 schrieb Robert Arkiletian: > Not really. I only pretend to. A little hack here and there goes a > long way. I keep telling my students they are all hackers now. They > love it. Mainly due to the fact they don't know what "hacker" really > means. ;) how a

Re: Enabling LDM_DIRECTX=True For Faster Sessions on Gutsy Server

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 07.11.2007, 10:15 -1000 schrieb R. Scott Belford: > Aloha > > On Edubuntu Gutsy LTSP server, is the only step to deactivate ssh (once > authenticated) to add > > LDM_DIRECTX=True > > to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf that should suffice check what your DISPLAY va

Re: need help ! SchoolNet would like to deploy Edubuntu on more than 300 schools,

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 07.11.2007, 19:48 +0100 schrieb Philipp Hanselmann: > > But then I noticed that these options are also disappeared if you > > login on the server with an normal user or even with a administration > > user (member of admin group). Strange is the logout panel is still > > off

Re: feisty: every user can switch of the server!!

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 07.11.2007, 21:24 +0200 schrieb Stefano Rivera: > He's talking about at the server console. I.e. The server gets used by > students. oops, sorry for that then, i'm on the road (as the whole company is atm) so reading mail only very quickly between meetings ciao o

Re: feisty: every user can switch of the server!!

hi, Am Sonntag, den 04.11.2007, 22:11 +0100 schrieb Philipp Hanselmann: > Hi, > > I noticed that on the server screen everybody can switch off the server? not in teh default setup, ldm cares for setting up the environment so the power manager, screensaver, local devices and sound work ... did you

Re: Keyboard Layout Issues

hi, Am Dienstag, den 06.11.2007, 11:20 -0500 schrieb Steve Wu: > What setting am I missing to get the ' and " keys to show up > correctly? seems like you should use the XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" option in lts.conf ciao oli signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrich

Re: gutsy and regular PCs on edubuntu lan

hi, Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 07:40 -0700 schrieb Bill Moseley: > BUT, running wireshark on the LTSP server I do see the "DHCP Request" > from "desktop" but the LTSP server is not ACK'ing. can you attach /etc/network/interfaces as well (it should *only* contain a static entry for the 192.168.0.1

Re: Edubuntu overheating on laptop

hi, Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 07:24 -0700 schrieb Stephen Rees: > Hi, > > Sorry it took so long to get back to this > Yes, fan and thermal are loaded. > I'll probably switch the laptop over to SuSE or Mandriva this weekend if I > can't find a way around the laptop overheating. > are the /a

Re: LOCAL APPS!!!

hi, Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 08:27 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch: > I've seen this posted to ltsp-discuss and k12osn, but not here yet. > Yesterday the gurus > finally had a chance to hack on local app supportand they got it! > > Here is a blog from Scott: > > http://ltspthinclient.blogsp

RE: gutsy and regular PCs on edubuntu lan

hi, Am Freitag, den 02.11.2007, 08:36 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch: > By default dhcp will only listen on your internal interface for requests. > This can be > modified in /etc/default/dhcp3-server. Here you list the interfaces you want > the dhcp > server to listen on. in times of udev and th

Re: Can the Server CD be used to setup clients?

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2007, 09:16 -0800 schrieb Don Venardos: > With 96MB of RAM the Desktop PPC CD is not going to work. You are > going to have to use the Xubuntu PowerPC CD to get a working gutsys desktop CD has a bootption to not start X that should work fine with 96M just add "texto

Re: Gutsy and the welcome sound

hi, Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 19:33 -0700 schrieb guillermo: > > Does anyone know a better solution for this problem? can you save two copies of the .asoundrc.asoundconf file ? one while logged in on the thin client, and one while being on the server and send both ? ciao oli signatur

Re: The 4GB problem

hi, Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 23:11 +0900 schrieb nigel barker: > David Van Assche wrote: > > > > Anyway I would love to know a better way to make workstation thin > > clients using LTSP instead... any ideas? > > This is possible in Debian-edu/Skolelinux. They call it "diskless > workstations

Re: The 4GB problem

hi, Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 14:23 +0100 schrieb David Van Assche: > Hi Nicolas, >I looked into the possibility of using edubuntu as a thin client > server for 'fat clients', sometimes called workstations... Basically, > each client gets its own chroot thats a pretty insane setup, why not

Re: fglrx in ltsp clients

hi, Am Sonntag, den 28.10.2007, 19:34 +0100 schrieb David Van Assche: > Hi, >I've been waiting for the new ATI drivers for many months to > finally get X working properly on my thin clients (all running ati > X1450 radeon.) Finally they've come out and I've tried following this > here: > http:/

Re: Booting i386 Clients from AMD64 Server

hi, Am Mittwoch, den 24.10.2007, 17:15 -1000 schrieb R. Scott Belford: > disappears and I have a blinking cursor in the top left corner of the > screen. > your clients obviously boot fine but seem to fail to configure X right try the following: create /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf and add

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