[K12OSN] LTSP5

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:48 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> 
> Peter Scheie wrote:
> > Actually, a beta version of K12LTSP7, based on Fedora 7, is available at 
> > ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/7.0.0-32bit/iso
> > and has been since July or so.  The problem is that K12LTSP is largely 
> > the result of one man's efforts, Eric, and the time he can devote to it 
> > varies.
> > 
> > While LTSP development is focused on LTSP 5, I would argue that there's 
> > not a significant benefit *to users* of version 5 over version 4.2. 
> > Therefore, in many (most?) cases, K12LTSP 6, based on LTSP 4.2 and 
> > Fedora 6, or K12LTSP-5EL, based on LTSP 4.2 and Centos5, is just fine, 
> > and can actually perform better in some areas such as client boot time. 
> >  Lately, I've been sticking with vesion 5EL because it's got long-term 
> > support, and I don't see any compelling advantage to LTSP 5 yet.  LTSP 5 
> > is the future, and I watch it closely, but I don't think users will 
> > notice much if any difference.  Others may disagree with me, and that's 
> > okay. ;-)
> > 
> 
> 
> LTSP-5 is going to give you cool things like the latest version of Xorg. 
>   LTSP-4.2 is stuck back in the world of Xorg-6.9.  By today's standards 
> thats old stuff.  If you are using older hardware, LTSP-4.2 is great. 
> If you have newer thin clients, based on newer chipsets, your only hope 
> might be LTSP-5.
> 
> the LTSP-5 in Ubuntu Gutsy, which will be released next week is WAY 
> better than any previous releases.  It addresses the boot-time and 
> run-time performance issues. It has awesome local device support, audio 
> support, secure login and a bunch more features.
> 
> While K12LTSP is an awesome distro, the LTSP that's in it is starting to 
> show its age.
----
even though I've always been a Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS user, I would
have no qualms about switching over to Ubuntu for LTSP.

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>