[Ltsp-discuss] Cutting-edge LTSP

[Jigish G. <cyb...@op...>]

openSUSE 11.2 development[1] started a while back, now that we have
passed Milestone2, development work on KIWI-LTSP[2] using openSUSE
11.2 base has started, with that we get a host of new features.

The highlights of new packages:
- Uses clicfs for NBD/AOE root image. Clicfs: Compressed Loop Image
Container is a file system created by Stephan Kulow[3]. So we do not
need squashfs and aufs anymore for LTSP images. Clicfs gives better
compression, image size is about 10% smaller than same image created
using squashfs.
- Kernel 2.6.30
- New look[4] by Samyak Bhuta
- New xorg, CONFIGURE_X in lts.conf no longer necessary

The packages are available in server:ltsp[5] repository.

Follow these instructions to test the development packages on already
configured LTSP server:

#Take backup so system can be restored as it is if something do go wrong
  mv /srv/kiwi-ltsp/i386.img /srv/kiwi-ltsp/i386-squashfs.img
  mv /srv/tftpboot/boot /srv/tftpboot/boot-old
#remove current images
  rpm -e kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt kiwi-ltsp-bootimages --nodeps
#add repository and install development packages
  zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_11.1
server:ltsp
  zypper in kiwi-ltsp-bootimages-unstable kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt-unstable</code>

Bugs, feature requests go on http://devzilla.novell.com/kiwi-ltsp/ .
See http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP#Communicate for more ways to give
feedback.

Happy testing...

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP
[3] http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/coolo/
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live/Screenshots#openSUSE_thin_theme
[5] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/