<quote who="Christopher JS Vance"> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:57:32PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > >You could try out the deeply integrated LTSP functionality in Ubuntu 5.10 > >(which will be released in mid-October, but available as a Preview > >release right now, and well worth testing). It'll work with whatever X > >session you choose to set up. > > I think you might have misunderstood. > > We have a file server already, running a different open OS. > > We want to boot from the server, but run all programs including Firefox > and Tk locally on the minimal footprint diskless Linux. No swap.
You can do this very nicely with LTSP. You can either run everything on a central processing server (traditional thin client model), or run everything on the client (traditional nfs root model), or run a hybrid (say, run the desktop on the central processing server where the shared memory footprint is advantageous, but run apps that need high performance display access such as video players and web browsers on the 'thin' client machine). > I managed once to get a chrooted Red Hat kernel build environment in > "only" 50 .rpms and that was painful. I guess I could try doing the same > sort of thing with Ubuntu, but was wondering how many .debs will it take > me to get this kind of stuff running with no recommended packages, just > the obligatory ones. And how many MB of ram disk that'll cost. So, LTSP will bulid the chroot for you, and set up the clients to work with a single nfs root, etc. The RAM disk cost on the thin client is minimal. So, by default the chroot will be loaded with all the sweet, sweet Ubuntu love, but you can dive into it and remove bucketloads of it if you want to. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/ "World domination is a community responsibility." - Michael Hall, LinuxPlanet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
