[K12OSN] LTSP 4.2

[Jim McQuillan]

Paul,

saying that the integration of LTSP into Edubuntu wasn't done properly 
is really a mis-statement.

The Ubuntu/Edubuntu implementation of LTSP is a brand new way of doing 
it, based on something we call the 'MueKow specification'.  It's a 
specification for integrating LTSP into distributions.

MueKow is an entirely different way of doing LTSP and it's an enormous 
amount of work.

The implementation of LTSP in Ubuntu's Breezy Badger release is the very 
first release of MueKow-LTSP.  The Ubuntu developers have taken on a 
huge task and come through with an awesome result.  And, they did it in 
less than 6 months.   Because this method of integrating LTSP is so new, 
and so much work, the Breezy release of LTSP is lacking some of the 
maturity that the original LTSP has, but it still works.  We've worked 
with the Ubuntu developers on the Dapper release, and it's quite a bit 
better.

MueKow was originally intended as an experiment, to see what it would be 
like to try to integrate LTSP into a distro using distro supplied 
packages, and based on the result that Matt Zimmerman and Oliver Grawert 
have achieved, I'd say it's a success, and I'm looking forward to more 
distros doing the same thing.  In fact, at Linux world last week, we had 
several conversations with the Fedora developers, and they are VERY 
interested in integrating LTSP into their distro.  We've offered the 
same type of help to Fedora that we are continually providing to Ubuntu, 
to make sure that LTSP is as good as it can possibly be.

More information about MueKow can be found here:

    http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/MueKow

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org






Paul VanGundy wrote:
> Ramon,
>
> Excellent question. Yes, it does. However the integration of LTSP into
> Edubuntu wasn't done properly. The Ubuntu/Edubuntu development teams
> know this and are trying to correct it in their next version of Edubuntu
> (6.06). Therefore, Edubuntu isn't a reliable LTSP distribution at this
> time. I hope this helps!
>
> -Paul 
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 09:19 -0300, Ramon wrote:
>   
>> dosen't edubuntu come with ltsp?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Regards,
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:01:04 +0200, Dean Mumby wrote
>>     
>>> Paul VanGundy wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'll keep you and anyone else posted if interested.
>>>>
>>>> -Paul
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It always nice to follow what someone else did when doing this 
>>> yourself. So yes please keep us posted.
>>>       
>> I started to upgrade my K12LTSP server at home last night to Ubuntu
>> Breezy
>> with LTSP 4.2. I am finding that the manual install is a lot more time
>> consuming than I thought. I wouldn't mind some direction as well. I'll
>> keep
>> messing with it in the meantime.
>>
>> I can't wait to give my wife the new local dev support!
>>
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