Re: [Ltsp-developer] LTSP5 for Fedora and SUSE

[Michael S. <mi...@os...>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:12:45PM +0530, CyberOrg wrote:
> > so, with very, very limited knowledge of fedora, i cobbled
> > together the beginnings of a crude implementation of LTSP5
> > for fedora.
> I am very happy that LTSP devs have at last created a
> groundwork for RPM based distribuions.

Heh, it was around and kicking half a year ago -- someone from
opensuse had even mailed me regarding specs for ALT Linux or
the likes.

Discussed on what's left after catching up with current bzr
(that was recently done) to submit our scripts and patches 
upstream; maybe that would even happen next week.

> > hope that helps get folks started.

+1

(still... maybe they're not after production, which LTSP clearly
is all about?  There wouldn't be too much kernel testing or
whatever hobby Fedora the project has, I'm afraid; hopefully
openSUSE is more serious in providing a distro that's not only
cutting edge but actually works)

> With a very limited development knowledge I have been trying to
> push LTSP5 for SUSE for quite some time, this is a good
> opportunity for Fedora and SUSE communities to work together.
> The status of our work on SUSE can be found here:
> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/KIWI-LTSP

We at ALT just have it working, with some parts of LTSP5 which 
are currently in "new half-baked, old dropped on the floor" state
...dropped on the floor and rolled back to 4.2 implementation, 
like ldm-only stuff. (I'm very thankful to ogra for the patience
he gave me during discussions of connected topics on #ltsp, and
it'd be happy day when we're able to finally drop XDMCP on the
floor altogether)

The implementation relies on higher-level tools available in our
distro (spt; think KIWI in openSUSE) which handle the chroot
builds for us, but there's also intention to port the plugin down
to bare apt-get.  There are no plans to dumb it down ever further
(e.g. bare rpm); and yum sample is what the thread started with.

Hope your integration goes well and LTSP5-carrier distro array
explodes seeing that :)

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