[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5.0.0 Released!

Tue Aug 8 02:16:22 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:01 -0700, Luis Montes wrote:
> Thanks for all the hard work, Eric !
> 
> One question,
> Are these the same files as rc5 ?
> I just finished pulling those down a little while ago.

The only changes I saw on the rsync was the MD5SUM files and the name of
the disk images. This true for both 32 and 64 bit.
> 
> 
> -Luis
> 
> 
> Eric Harrison wrote:
> >
> > Come one, come all! Come get your shiny new bits and bytes!
> >
> > K12LTSP version 5.0 is now available for your downloading pleasure.
> >
> >
> > Pentium/Xeon/Athlon/etc 32bit version:
> >
> >     http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/k12ltsp/5.0.0-32bit/iso/
> >     ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-32bit/iso/
> >     rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-32bit/ .
> >
> >
> > Opteron/EM64T/etc 64bit version:
> >
> >    http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/k12ltsp/5.0.0-64bit/iso/
> >    ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-64bit/iso/
> >    rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-5.0.0-64bit/ .
> >
> >
> >
> > K12LTSP 5.0 is based on Fedora Core 5, which includes all sorts of
> > new stuff. Of primary interest to K12LTSP users:
> >
> >     * This release of Fedora includes Mono support for the first time,
> >       and Mono applications such as Beagle, a desktop search interface;
> >       F-Spot, a photo management utility; and Tomboy, a note-taking
> >       application.
> >
> >     * There is dramatically improved internationalization support with
> >       SCIM in Fedora Core 5. The SCIM language input framework provides
> >       an easy to use interface for inputting many different non-English
> >       languages.
> >
> >     * For all of the dirty-details, see the full release notes at:
> >       http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/release-notes-ISO/
> >
> > K12LTSP includes LTSP version 4.2. LTSP-4.2 offers lots of great 
> > improvements, including:
> >
> >     * Redesigned local device support based on ltspfs and lbus. 
> > Currently,
> >       USB Memory sticks, USB CDRom, IDE CDrom and floppy drives are
> >       supported. With local devices enabled, when you insert a memory
> >       stick or a CDRom, an Icon appears on the desktop that is 
> > browseable.
> >       Remove the memory stick or CDrom, and the icon disappears.
> >
> >     * We've reduced the amount of memory needed on a thin client by
> >       about 7mb. This is really significant for low-memory machines.
> >
> >     * Updated to the 2.6.16.1 kernel.
> >
> >     * Swap over NBD. We've used NFS-Swap in the past, but that's not
> >       available in the 2.6.x series kernels. We wrote a new ltspswapd
> >       daemon that runs on the server, to provide NBD swapfile management.
> >
> >     * udev has completely replaced devfs. This causes a significant
> >       speedup in the boot time, and better hotplug capabilities for
> >       local devices.
> >
> >     * SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is now included in LTSP, so you
> >       can plug scanners into the thin clients, and access them from
> >       anywhere on the network.
> >
> >     * Multi-head X - The ability to have multiple video cards and
> >       multiple monitors connected to a single thin client. Very handy
> >       for extreme programming, where you just need more space to open
> >       up more windows.
> >
> >     * Faster client booting. We've really made some great progress here.
> >       By switching from devfs to udev, and by making lots of improvements
> >       to the startup scripts, we've decreased the boot time dramatically.
> >       On our test workstations (LTSP T-170's from 
> > DisklessWorkstations.com),
> >       we've gotten the boot time down to 22 seconds! That's 22 seconds 
> > from
> >       pressing the power button, to having a graphical login screen.
> >       THAT is fast.
> >
> >     * VNC module that can be used by Fl_Teachertool to Monitor or
> >       Control a thin client. Note that is disabled by default. To enable
> >       this feature, you must do the following:
> >
> >
> >       1) Edit the file /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf and uncomment
> >          (remove the "#") from the following line:
> >
> >                  X4_MODULE_02 = vnc
> >
> >       2) Now you'll have to make a password for the vnc-session. Run this
> >          command as root:
> >
> >                 /usr/bin/vncpasswd
> >
> >       3) Copy the password file into the ltsp-tree
> >
> >                cp -R -p /root/.vnc /opt/ltsp/i386/root/
> >
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