Theo Schmidt schrieb: ... > I just tried out Edubuntu 10.04... > > It has something new called LTSP live... > > Now my problem is, it doesn't work...
In the meantime, I've gotten it to work somewhat. I checked the MD5 sum of my DVD+RW and found errors, so reburned my DVD, using a DVD-RW at single speed this time, resulting in a correct MD5 sum. LTSP-live still doesn't work as intended and seems to mix up eth0 and eth1 sometimes, but if you *repeatedly* run it *while* a thin client is running and waiting for DHCP offers, and trying out both eth0 and eth1 irrespective of actual network cards and routers present, it should eventually work - as a last resort you can try rebooting. It is possible to have a terminal server and thin clients running completely live within 10 minutes, perhaps 5 minutes with fast machines! ( I know Knoppix has done this for years, but I never figured out how to.) Booting the thin client takes rather long, almost as long as building LTSP itself, but with newer monitors you get automatic resolution configuration and the possiblity of changing the orientation on the thin client. In my case, I was able to use the 1600x1200 screen upside-down (very useful if you want to mount your monitor from the ceiling but I wish there was a mirror-image option instead), but portrait mode didn't work and "crashed" X, as unfortunately the default is to continue with the new settings instead of resuming the old ones. I'll try to mention these in Launchpad. With an old monitor, Edubuntu apparently tries to use either the same resolution as the server on the thin client or perhaps the maximum resolution that the thin client provides - but the server seems to get 800x600 if its monitor isn't recognized, with no possiblity to change this. The multimedia stuff works perfectly! Edubuntu uses Gnome as default and has discontinued the previous rather nice but "juvenile" look. This also makes it easy to get a KDE 3.5 type of look very quickly (take the top bar to the bottom, make it a bit bigger and delete the previous bottom bar)) and one KDE 4 program (Marble, including OpenStreetMap) is preinstalled. The thin client is now also supplied with a mini-boot manager allowing to boot an installed or embedded system instead of the network system, without having to remove the ethernet cable first. Summary: Apart from bugs, you can now get a terminal server running "from scratch" within minutes, thus "installing" an entire computer classroom "instantly" and if desired temporarly. Well done, developers!! Cheers, Theo Schmidt -- Ubuntu-ch mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ch
