[K12OSN] RE: Future LTSP direction: Local Apps

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 16:04:20 UTC 2007


On 4/19/07, rowens at ptd.net <rowens at ptd.net> wrote:
>
> There was a discussion a few weeks back regarding what Robert Arkiletian saw
> at Kamloops school in Canada.  Link for reference:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2007-March/msg00698.html
>
> I was trying to remember the name of a certain project I had read about, and I
> just stumbled across it today:  DRBL http://drbl.sourceforge.net/  It stands
> for Diskless Remote Boot in Linux.  Basically, a server is set up which has
> the operating system, and it PXE boots clients.  The clients then run *all* of
> their applications locally, but with no hard drive (all filesystems are
> mounted from the server).
>

Interesting. Thanks for the link. I will pass it on.

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/




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