[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5.0.0 Released!

[Luis Montes]

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.


-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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