[K12OSN] Where is K12LTSP at?

Moon moon at smbis.com
Sat Mar 7 21:16:37 UTC 2009


Warren, could you let me know what video driver you use for the AMD
Geode thin client?

Thanks

Charlie

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 21:59 -0500, Moon wrote:

> Warren, I noticed you stated you have an AMD Geode thin client in your
> lab. What video driver are you using/specifying in the lts.conf for
> that client? I have a Alix1.D AMD LX800 Geode based thin client that
> the video doesn't work too well with K12LTSP or K12Linux, it defaults
> to vesa. I would like to get better video performance on both K12LTSP
> and K12Linux. It also has a problem with the audio on the K12LTSP due
> to no support for the CS5535, there is no snd_cs5535audio driver
> available in K12LTSP.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charlie 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:24 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: 
> 
> > Rob Owens wrote:
> > > If you're looking for something longer life than Fedora / LTSP 5, you
> > > could try Debian Lenny or Ubuntu Hardy, both with LTSP 5.  Or you
> > > could stick with CentOS / LTSP 4.2.  I know there's also an OpenSuse
> > > implementation of LTSP 5, but I don't know much about that
> > > distribution or its life cycle.
> > 
> > http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
> > "K12LTSP is considered to be LEGACY software that is usable with old 
> > hardware until CentOS5 support ends in the year 2014. If you need modern 
> > LTSP 5.x features or modern client hardware, then you will want to use 
> > K12Linux.org."
> > 
> > K12LTSP EL5 uses the ancient LTSP-4.2.  This is beneficial in that you 
> > get security updates for the server and desktop applications on the 
> > server until the year 2014.  Ubuntu and Debian releases do not last 
> > nearly *that* long.
> > 
> > The other benefit of K12LTSP EL5 is it works with more ancient client 
> > hardware due its ancient version of X and kernel.  This is also a 
> > detriment though... because lots of modern client hardware will not work 
> > at all.
> > 
> > K12Linux F10 has the benefit of modern LTSP5 features like sound, local 
> > storage devices, local apps support, and modern X allows modern client 
> > hardware to work.  The drawbacks however are:
> > 
> > * Modern X broke some older client hardware.  These are upstream x.org 
> > bugs.  They will only be fixed if people take the time to file the bugs 
> > upstream instead of just complain about them.  I personally don't have 
> > time nor hardware to work on this.  I have a dozen different modern thin 
> > clients of AMD Geode, VIA, Intel and Radeon chipsets and they all work 
> > great with K12Linux.
> > * It needs more RAM on the client, at least 128MB to be safe.
> > * Support ends early 2010.
> > 
> > The support problem isn't too bad.  Just use K12Linux F10 until K12Linux 
> > EL6 (RHEL6 + EPEL6) is out.  Then upgrade once into that version which 
> > will be supported for many years thereafter.
> > 
> > Warren Togami
> > wtogami at redhat.com
> > 
> > > 
> > > Somewhere on the LTSP wiki I think there are instructions for how to
> > > use an Ubuntu-based chroot environment on any other distro.  There's
> > > a guy on the ltsp-discuss list who uses LTSP 5 on CentOS in this way.
> > 
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