[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.0 beta build

[Eric Harrison]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Eric Harrison wrote:

>
> I still have several major packages to add/update, but I made significant
> progress in completing K12LTSP 4.2.0 today.

I'm still not "done", but I'm close enough that I could ship what I have
and not have to wear a bag over my head ;-)

On my TODO list:

  1. Upgrade/enhance teachertool
  2. Default printer based on location
  3. port the scripts from http://www.vol.org/vol/school/freedom/ltsp_scripts/
  4. Full DansGuardian integration

If you are familiar/maintain one-of-the-above, please drop me an email.
I'm going to get as much of this done as possible this week, whatever
I don't get done I'm just going to drop for this release. So the more
help I have the better ;-)

I have decided not to include NX support within the default install.
It simply is not fully baked yet, and since it is easy to add on
post-install I don't want to hold up a release for it.

If you want to test NX, the packages will be in the K12LTSP 4.2.0
repositories. You'll need the nx, freenx, and nx-ltsp packages.


> If all continues to go well, I'll have a pre-release build
> ready by Sunday.

This is *close* to a pre-release. I am only halfway through the
testing cycle, but so far everything is working fine. That said...

> Standard disclaimer: this is not a finished product. Do not use in a
> production environment, yadda, yadda, and so on and so forth.


If you have a test environment, I'd love feedback on this build

    ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/4.2.0alpha/
    rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::testing/4.2.0alpha/ .

If you already have the K12LTSP 4.2.0alpha installed, the apt/up2date/yum
repositories will have the latest-n-greated packages within the
hour.

-Eric