[K12OSN] A New direction for LTSP: Diskless Remote Boot

[Warren Togami]

R. Scott Belford wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Doug Simpson 
> <simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us <mailto:simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us>> wrote:
> 
>     HEAR! HEAR!
> 
>     The very reason I started with K12LTSP was the fact that I *could*
>     use old hardware and make it usable again.
> 
> 
> LTSP 5 in Edubuntu has created some general problems with older, 
> lightweight thin clients.  DRBL works fine with older machines.  The 
> progress is encouraging for the latest Fedora spin.
> 

Any idea what exactly LTSP5 Edubuntu is doing wrong?  We're using almost 
all the same upstream sources, although more aggressively newer versions 
on a more frequent basis.

We are doing X detection stuff in a completely different (and less 
broken) manner.  But otherwise our stuff really isn't that different.

Warren