[K12OSN] repository for K12LTSP 4.2.1 pre-release #1

[Petre Scheie]

This is rather after-the-fact I suppose, but I consider the support for Mac/PPC clients 
to a MAJOR enhancement--MANY thanks to Jim, Chuck, Jim, et al--especially considering 
this is a project focused on schools where Macs are more common. That being so, perhaps 
this release should be numbered 4.3 rather than 4.2.1.  I'm thinking about this in the 
context of conversations with school people that involve recommending they checkout 
K12LTSP so they can make better use of their old Macs; I think it will be easier to say 
"Get version 4.3" and have them remember it than 4.2.1.  OTOH, since this is the first 
run at incoporating the PPC support, and will therefore probably have a few bugs, 
perhaps we should save 4.3 for a 'stable' version, even though it presently sounds 
pretty solid.  Just some food for thought.

Petre

Eric Harrison wrote:
> 
> I have a short TODO list of minor packaging clean-ups which I should have
> finished up by this weekend. If all goes well I'll release 4.2.1 on
> Monday.
> 
> 
> I created a new repository containing the packages for K12LTSP 4.2.1 pre1.
> You can access the repository by upgrading to a new k12ltsp-release 
> package:
> 
>    rpm -Uhv 
> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/4.2.1beta/updates/k12ltsp-release-4.2.1-4.noarch.rpm 
> 
> 
> After running this command, you can run "yum update" to install the K12LTSP
> beta packages.
> 
> If you would prefer the full ISOs, you can fetch them from:
> 
>   ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/4.2.1beta/iso/
>   rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-beta/ .
> 
> 
> There are still a couple big questions lingering which I cannot answer,
> I'm going to need your help:
> 
>   * Are the limits set in /etc/profile.d/ulimit.sh too high or too low for
>     the users of your terminal server?
> 
>   * If you have old Mac hardware you would like to use as terminals, does
>     the PPC support work for you?
> 
>   * Are the ldap-samba configuration scripts ready for inclusion?
> 
> Speak now or forever hold your peace ;-)
> 
> -Eric
> 
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