[K12OSN] 2-server setup

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Wed Jan 31 17:41:20 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Dan Young wrote:
>> Krsnendu dasa wrote:
>>> Would you recommend a different operating system for the LDAP /home
>>> server? Perhaps a "more stable" distribution like Centos as opposed to
>>> Fedora? And the machine can also be stripped down in the sense you
>>> don't need openoffice and other enduser programs.
>>
>> Yes, yes, and yes.
>>
>> Fedora == shiny desktop bits
>> CentOS == stable server bits
> 
> And note that there are k12ltsp versions of each that might be 
> convenient to install even if you don't normally run terminals directly 
> on the home/ldap server.  The 4.2.3EL versions here
> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/
> are Centos-based and suitable for installs even if you don't use the 
> ltsp part.
> 
Just to verify: The CentOS-based versions of K12LTSP are all pre-LTSP 4.2, correct?

Petre




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