[K12OSN] Wish list

Gideon Romm ltsp at symbio-technologies.com
Wed Nov 3 20:30:21 UTC 2004


If anyone's interested in wireless, we've been very successful with
simply using an access point and a bridge connected to the thin client
(or cluster of thin clients connected by a cheap switch).  A wireless
bridge is easy to configure and easy to swap out when the next latest
and greatest wireless standard comes out.  It is about as cheap as a
wireless card and there's no muss no fuss.  From the thin client's point
of view, nothing's changed, and it PXE/Etherboots as usual.  The
wireless link is transparent.  You can also get more bang-for-your-buck
if rather than using 1 bridge per thin client, you use 1 bridge per
cluster of thin clients connected by a switch.  You can make wireless
thin client islands and divide the cost of the bridge by the number of
workstations.

Using NX as the client connection makes a lot of sense with wireless,
but that's an application server choice.  :)  

-Gideon

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:54, Jim McQuillan wrote:

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 We do have a ltsp-wireless package, but it's really out of date.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