Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP 5 Options

[Oliver G. <og...@ub...>]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 20:23 -0600 schrieb Peter Scheie:
> 
> Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 10:08 -0600 schrieb
> > jy...@or...:
> >> Are any distributions supporting LTSP 5 in their enterprise level
> >> offerings?  Biggest thing that we're curious about would be security
> >> updates for more than 3 years.
> > 
> > ubuntu LTS (8.04) gets support for 3 years for LTSP and you can
> > optionally buy commercial support contracts...
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
> > i think thats the only offer of this size about now, afaik warren is
> > working to get ltsp5 into RHEL at some point but that still might take a
> > while ...
> > 
> > ciao
> > 	oli
> > 
> Does Canonical's support cover the ltsp parts as well?
yes, thats what the "Terminal Server" column in the table on the webpage
means, though since LTSP is largely depending on the desktop session
LTSP itself only falls under the desktop category in case of long term
support (i.e. 3 years of security updates instead of the 5 you get for
the ubuntu server LTS version). The original poster looked for an option
for more than 3 years, which in case of ubuntu will likely never happen
and in case of RHEL isnt really there yet.

ciao
	oli