[K12OSN] K12LTSP v4.0.1 released

[Henry Hartley]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Harrison [mailto:eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us] 
>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:19 PM
>> 
>> K12LTSP v4.0.1 is officially availible for your downloading pleasure.
>> 
>> Known issues
>> ------------
>> 
>> - Reports of serious stability problems with SMP kernels continue.
>> Mission-critical sites are still encouraged to stick with K12LTSP
>> 3.1.2.  The Enterprise version of K12LTSP in testing, please help
>> out if you can.

As I'm just getting the green light (hopefully today) to purchase my
server, I'm wondering where things are going with the SMP issues.  My
plan was to go with a dual Xeon motherboard and to run (naturally) an
SMP kernel.  My three most pressing questions are:

Question 1:

How stable is unstable?  This is for a lab so an occasional crash  
won't be as devistating as if I were running an office on it but still
I cannot have it crashing every half hour.  Later posts seem to
indicate it may be too unstable even for a lab, however.  Comments?

Question 2:

If I install 3.1.2 on this machine, can I upgrade all but the kernel
to the 4.0.1 level or are there too many differences to do that?  Does
it make more sense to run 3.1.2 on two processors than to run 4.0.1 on
one?  I'll only have six workstations for the next few months, if that
matters.

Question 3:

When can we expect this to be resolved?  (crystal ball time)  Does
the 2.6 kernel provide the stability we need?  What version of
K12LTSP is expected to debut that kernel?  Will 2.6 come to the 4.0.x
series or will we wait until FC2 and K12LTSP 4.1 (or whatever it will
be called)?  It looks like there is active work on the 2.4 kernel but
it's hard to tell where that's going.

-- 
Henry Hartley