[K12OSN] any NX plans for K12LTSP?

[Shawn R. Austin]

I have been looking at sources that I found for debian and am currently
testing them.  The one problem that I have found so far is it has no
support for users from LDAP.  It seems to want everyone to have a local
account for it to work.  Im trying to get that changed now.  If I have
any luck with this, I will send a link to the list with the modified
server and a screen script.

Shawn
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 23:45, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:29:58PM -0700, Chris Thomas wrote:
> > Check out /. they have something too.
> > 
> > I think NX wont be included because it is a competing
> > thin client solution. Plus LTSP isn't setup to support
> > NX.
> 
> NX doesn't compete with LTSP.  NX is nothing like LTSP.
> 
> LTSP is a distribution of linux that runs on thin client hardware.
> 
> NX is an X proxy that works very well over low bandwidth connections.
> 
> > The way I see it, (please correct me if I'm wrong)
> > LTSP is basically a minimalist Linux OS that was made
> > to do a few things. 1) Load over the network when a
> > thin client is turned on. 2) Run the OS in ram. 3)
> > Start X-windows and use XDMCP to connect to the
> > Terminal Server. 
> 
> #1 is correct. LTSP loads over the net.
> 
> #2 is also correct, but then again, operating systems
>    run in ram on all computers.
> 
> #3 is sort of correct, but it's not complete.  One of the
>    things you can do with LTSP is run an Xserver with
>    and XDMCP query to a server.  you can also run rdesktop
>    as a session, without doing an XDMCP query.
>    You can also run a character based telnet session, if you
>    don't want/need a gui.
> 
> > 
> > If you want a LTSP-like solution that supports, or
> > will support NX, check out http://pxes.sf.net/ and
> > http://thinstation.sf.net/
> 
> NX is a very interesting technology, and basically, there's
> only 2 reasons why it isn't in LTSP yet.
> 
> 1) Until now, there hasn't been a free server available.
> 
> 2) There's only so many hours in the day.
> 
> With Freenx, it appears that we now have a free implementation of the NX
> server technology.
> 
> So, the only remaining hurdle is finding the time to integrate the NX
> client into LTSP.  I've not spent any time at it yet, but it really
> shouldn't be all that tough to create a screen_script that
> runs X and the NX client.  Anybody want to take a whack at it ?
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Dale Sykora <dalen at czexan.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I read an interesting article about an X compression
> > > technology called 
> > > NX than lowers the bandwidth needs of remote X
> > > sessions.  I was 
> > > wondering if this is being considered for future
> > > K12LTSP versions.  The 
> > > article is at the url below.
> > > 
> > > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8139&page=1
> > > 
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