Rob Owens schrieb:
be the next stable release. But you can stay with testing
permanently, and it will be like a rolling release. You'll have
frequent updates available. I find that I get about the same volume of
updates with Testing as I do with Ubuntu 7.10 or 8.04. But the Debian
Testing
Jordan Erickson schrieb:
Rob/all,
I've been following this thread closely, and it seems a LOT of people
are still on LTSP 4.2 and either CentOS or Debian.
I have to ask, being an Ubuntu-only LTSP shop (right now, anyway) - are
there issues regarding Firefox? OpenOffice? Crashes of any
+1 for me.
Ubuntu back porting policy is horrible and the last stable LTSP version
is (have to say) still 4.2 where everything just worked.
Unfortunately lots of new applications / desktops just need some recent
X server so you are forced to LTSP-5.
I must say I have already given up - I submitted
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Jason Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
On 10/02/2008 01:15 PM, Jordan Erickson wrote:
This is true, but I think most of the problems people have with Flash on
LTSP is getting sound to work.
That was the case at my small non-profit organization with
Hello Jordan,
Jordan Erickson skrev:
Just FWIW, I've seen Youtube and some other similar web thingies not
work *on Windows* for various reasons, one of them being the need to
upgrade Flash.
This is true, but I think most of the problems people have with Flash on
LTSP is getting sound to
And here, my friends, is the ENTIRE problem.
I should stress that I said *almost* afraid. I am enough of a nerd that I want
to get my hands on the latest and greatest. I am testing Intrepid on my *home*
machine and contributing bug reports. I go as far as testing it on small LTSP
networks I
Scott Balneaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:01:56PM -0400, Patrick Rady wrote:
Actually, Intrepid pre-release has seemed less-crufty than
Hardy. But I'm almost afraid to try testing it.
And here, my friends, is the ENTIRE problem.
We work very
What you're looking for is very similar to what you get when you run
Debian Testing. I think you should give it a try and see what you think.
-Rob
We may give Debian a try. At least on a test machine.
I went on at length about some of our issues with Ubuntu-hardy, but my response
got
Patrick Rady wrote:
Firefox 3, seems to be a regression in terms of stability. It crashes
on graphics intensive pages, it crashes with Flash.
firefox-2 is available in the repositories if you want to try running that.
-Rob
The
-Original Message-
From: Rob Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 October 2008 15:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith.
Patrick Rady wrote:
Firefox 3, seems to be a regression in terms of stability
Rob Owens skrev:
I did some testing for you on a few of my systems.
CentOS / LTSP 4.2 -- music works, but sound on YouTube doesn't. I
installed an Alsa-ESD package to get music to work. I didn't do
anything in attempt to get YouTube sound to work, but I hear there are
some using it
Just FWIW, I've seen Youtube and some other similar web thingies not
work *on Windows* for various reasons, one of them being the need to
upgrade Flash.
This is true, but I think most of the problems people have with Flash on
LTSP is getting sound to work. I'm not sure if this is such an
Hi all,
On 10/02/2008 01:15 PM, Jordan Erickson wrote:
This is true, but I think most of the problems people have with Flash on
LTSP is getting sound to work.
That was the case at my small non-profit organization with LTSP 4.2.
Now that we're using LTSP 5 (on Ubuntu Server 8.04 64-bit)
Jason, I'd have to first wonder what hardware you're running on the
server. Flash *is* pretty CPU intensive, and when you have 1 person
technically on the same box using it...network wouldn't matter TOO much.
Of course, with what you're describing as your network setup, I'd have
to assume your
And I saw once more the difference to a native speaker: didn't even
notice any problem in that sentence, just accepting and understanding it...
Still learning :-)
Rolf
David Burgess schrieb:
Not that you were unclear, I just couldn't resist the opportunity to poke fun.
db
On Tue, Sep
I did some testing for you on a few of my systems.
CentOS / LTSP 4.2 -- music works, but sound on YouTube doesn't. I
installed an Alsa-ESD package to get music to work. I didn't do
anything in attempt to get YouTube sound to work, but I hear there are
some using it successfully.
Debian Etch /
Jordan Erickson wrote:
Patrick Rady wrote:
*snip*
With Ubuntu, there is a certain pressure to upgrade- if you want your
users to have the latest versions of, say, OpenOffice. You need to
upgrade (in my case because of weird bugs with print drivers we need
to use) because they are so
Patrick Rady wrote:
I've been working with LTSP for about a year and a half now. Specifically,
LTSP on Ubuntu.
We put LTSP-based thin client networks into nonprofits, I think that the open
source world is a good fit for the nonprofit world and doing this we can free
them from a lot of
Rob/all,
I've been following this thread closely, and it seems a LOT of people
are still on LTSP 4.2 and either CentOS or Debian.
I have to ask, being an Ubuntu-only LTSP shop (right now, anyway) - are
there issues regarding Firefox? OpenOffice? Crashes of any kind? Do you
use Java web
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Jordan Erickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]...
(I.E. don't crash consistently
during normal browsing or using Java applets)
...[snip]
Hmm, that's worded a bit roughly. How to fix that. Let's try
IE doesn't crash consistently during normal browsing
Reads
Heh, sorry David, I was cut/pasting on my Asus EEE. What I meant was,
For example, FIREFOX doesn't crash during normal browsing or using Java
applets
I.E. - probably shouldn't have used that abbreviation, at least in the
context of browsers - although your refined statement DOES tend to make
Not that you were unclear, I just couldn't resist the opportunity to poke fun.
db
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jordan Erickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh, sorry David, I was cut/pasting on my Asus EEE. What I meant was,
For example, FIREFOX doesn't crash during normal browsing or using
(Heh, coincidentally my Thunderbird randomly crashed while writing a
reply to this)
Patrick Rady wrote:
*snip*
With Ubuntu, there is a certain pressure to upgrade- if you want your
users to have the latest versions of, say, OpenOffice. You need to
upgrade (in my case because of weird bugs
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Patrick Rady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Specifically, which distros support LTSP and are suited to a desktop/office
environment. I want stability and environment for non-computer oriented
people to have a desktop that just works- especially things like the
Not to put too fine a point on it, but your requirement of a desktop that just
works- especially things like the multimedia web surfing experience is a
contradiction in terms. It is the mulitmedia web stuff that is hard,
cutting-edge (perhaps bleeding-edge) and constantly changing and makes
Administrator, npServ
- Original Message -
From: Peter Scheie
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:44:25
-0400
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but your
Patrick Rady wrote:
I need something that will work for office work and for volunteers that want
to do things like outreach on dodgy social sites and stuff that requires
multimedia. I find its a tough sell to tell people coming from MS Windows
environments that they can't expect to use
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:13:02 -0400
Patrick Rady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find its a tough sell to tell people coming from MS Windows environments
that they can't expect to use YouTube anymore, or listen to a webinar.
If you really need something thatt works exactly like Microsoft Windows,
I've been working with LTSP for about a year and a half now. Specifically, LTSP
on Ubuntu.
We put LTSP-based thin client networks into nonprofits, I think that the open
source world is a good fit for the nonprofit world and doing this we can free
them from a lot of the expense of closed
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:14:25 -0400
Patrick Rady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Specifically, which distros support LTSP and are suited to a desktop/office
environment.
I use LTSP 4.2 on Centos 5 with several Neoware Capio 600-series terminals in a
print shop that creates 3 weekly classified ad
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