[K12OSN] State of K12LTSP?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

I just did a small one here in Las Vegas, NV, for a private party, using 
K12LTSP 5.0EL, while on "vacation" visiting my Dad.  I'm emailing you 
from that box right now.  And yes, it is a small business, not a 
school.  BTW, yes, the CentOS 5.1 "Perfect Desktop" instructions over at 
www.howtoforge.com work very nicely with it.

Damn, this stuff's good....

--TP

Rob Owens wrote:
> Hey Eric, good to hear from you again!
>
> You know the thought crossed my mind that until LTSP 5 is integrated into Fedora, maybe the EL versions of K12LTSP would be enough for everybody (and cease working on Fedora/LTSP4.2 based K12LTSP).  Just a thought.  I'm sure the Fedora users will have something to say about it.  But I'm pretty happy with my K12LTSP 5.0EL
>
> Thanks for all your hard work.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:30:17PM -0800, Eric Harrison wrote:
>   
>> Here is the official state of the union:
>>
>> 1) The fundamental flaw with K12LTSP is that is has mostly been me
>> doing the grunt work. This is probably obvious, I'm stating it just to
>> make sure that it is.
>>
>> 2) Point #1 has burned me out. This is probably obvious, I'm stating
>> it just to make sure that it is.
>>
>> 3) I've been working long and hard, mostly behind the scenes, to fix
>> #1 and #2. Unless you are paying really close attention, that is
>> probably not obvious.
>>
>> 4) As part of #3, I personally helped to spec out the first version of
>> Edubuntu and have attended about half of the Ubuntu Developer Summits.
>> I've done my best to make friends with the fine folks at skolelinux,
>> debian-edu, revolution linux, and anyone who is a "competitor" to
>> K12LTSP. I've preached to the choir about how much we all have in
>> common and how important it is that we all work together. These are
>> not our competitors, these are our bothers-in-arms....
>>
>> 5) I've been swamped with personal & work stuff and it has been hard
>> to carve out large tracks of time to do K12LTSP work. Building and
>> testing new K12LTSP releases takes huge amounts of time. Hence K12LTSP
>> versions 5.1EL, 7 & 8 are still sitting in the "testing" directory.
>>
>> 6) If you are a Fedora hacker, you may have noticed the LTSP5 packages
>> trickling into the Fedora repositories. Hopes are that F9 will have
>> fully-functional LTSP5 support. From a purely optimistic
>> point-of-view, I hope that the FUDcon will result in fully-functional
>> LTSP5 packages for F8.
>>
>> 7) This weekend I will be at the Fedora FUDcon (see points #1-4, 6).
>> If you happen to make it to North Carolina this weekend, come and help
>> us do some hacking.
>>
>>
>> -Eric
>>