[K12OSN] Fedora 9 Live LTSP Server, Beta 1

[Warren Togami]

Jay Pfaffman wrote:
> 
> The show-stopper for me is that there is no support for PPC clients.
> Several schools that I'm working with have piles of old iMacs that
> work acceptably as clients & having those machines go from unusable,
> un-upgradable machines that cannot print to a network printer into
> fast clients is pretty compelling.  (OTOH, not compelling enough for
> the last school that I tried it in to keep using them.)
> 
> PPC client suport seems important.

I personally have no PPC hardware.  The code contains some untested (and 
most assuredly incomplete) support for PPC.  It took John Ellson a very 
small amount of work to get x86_64 client installs working and booting. 
   Someone else could work on the same for PPC, except they would need a 
PPC machine running Fedora 9 to do so.

If the work is put into making PPC ltsp-build-client work, then we could 
put the /opt/ltsp/ppc into a tarball.  That should theoretically be made 
bootable after copying to a i386/x86_64 LTSP server and running a few 
scripts.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com