[K12OSN] Wish list

[Jim McQuillan]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Jim Hays wrote:

> Since you titled this "Wish List", here goes:  It's Brainstorming
> Time.............
>
> With the cost of the USB "Drives" what they are today, I would like to see
> support for "local" USB drives built in.  It would be nice if this were
> something that could be turned on or off easily (GUI?) and could be managed on
> a per client basis.  I have not tried this and it may be very easy or very
> difficult.
> Any possibilty to have wireless access to K12LTSP?  That would be
> interesting......  A "wireless lab" of laptops with no hard drives and
> "bootable NICs" running K12LTSP from a server in the cart.   This one would
> have some commercial value as well.

I've not seen a wireless card that supports PXE or Etherboot booting.
So, you'd still need some way of loading the kernel and initrd.  Floppy,
cdrom or USB drive most likely would do it.

We do have a ltsp-wireless package, but it's really out of date.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org




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> Eric Harrison wrote:
>
> > This weekend I'm going to a LTSP developer's conference in Maine.
> > I have Friday -> Monday carved out for K12LTSP development.
> > While I have some dedicated time, what do you guys & gals want me to work
> > on?
> >
> > I have two objectives:
> >
> > 1) Immediate needs. What changes do you want to see in K12LTSP 4.2.0?
> >   (keeping in mind I'd like to have this finished in the next two
> >    weeks ;-)
> > 2) Start work on the next major version. What are the major issues
> >   issues/enhancements that you would like to see in the next 6-12
> >   months?
> >
> > Since I will be traveling, I won't have the hardware necessary
> > to finish K12LTSP 3.2.0. It is perfectly fine to request this as
> > a priority, but it won't get done this weekend ;-)
> >
> >
> > To kick things off, here is the list of topics that have been
> > suggested for the LTSP developer's conference:
> >
> >  * LDAP Authentication possibly w/Kerberos?
> >  * Local display manager
> >  * Local App Building/Packaging
> >  * Local app invocation
> >  * Local drive support (usb devices, floppy, cdrom)
> >  * Desktop shadowing (VNC, x11vnc, x110rbserver)
> >  * Security audit of the ltsp tree, file perms, ownership, tcpwrappers
> >  * Low bandwidth (NX, FreeNX)
> >  * Other non-x86 architectures for LTSP thin clients
> >    (PPC,Sparc,StrongArm)
> >  * Using SSH to tunnel the X traffic
> >
> >
> > -Eric
> >
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