[K12OSN] Any New K12LTSP deployments

[Gavin Spurgeon]

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Please dont take these next comments the wrong way, It seems no mater
how I word them, they sounds very mean... That is not my intention @
all. I hope the following 2 points will help.

> CentOS6 should be released within the next month. That leaves around
> 6 months to get a stable K12Linux 6EL  release out. Considering
> CentOS6 is largely based on FC12

a.) Fedora is no longer known as Fedora Core, We dropped the Core bit @
FC6 (2006) It is now just 'Fedora'

b.) RHEL6 is based on Fedora 14, not Fedora 12, So CentOS6 *should* be
based on the same code.

> The big question is who would build it and be the maintainers?

I have built and released LTSP 5.2.4 as .rpm's and I know from this list
that people have been using the .rpm's in production environments.
I do need to update the .rpm's to the latest stable release of LTSP, but
due to some Major changes in Fedora 14, this is not as simple as it sounds.

The Kickstart files used to create the LTSP Images in Fedora 13 and
below are fine, but Fedora 14 has removed a lot of the packages that
LTSP used to use, So we now need to replace/rebuild these kickstarts
with the correct packages and make sure that the LTSP Clients can still
boot and run as they should. This is going to take a hell of a lot of
testing and so on.

I can build and test the .rpm's and get them released, but I do not have
a test enviroment where I can boot serveral clients and really
functionally test them all. That is where the comunity needs to help me
with the testing.

Along with some friends I have been working on trying to get these
.rpm's added back into the official fedora repos but even for a Red Hat
Employee, it is not as easy as you would think. We still have to follow
the procedures and this again all takes time.

I have taken over the Fedora .rpm's and will continue to do my best to
get them released as soon as I can.

We have a Bugzilla Open @

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598134
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652896

and my temp repo is @
http://www.dageek.co.uk/ltsp/

I also have a screenshot of LTSP v5.2.4 Running on Fedora 13 @
http://www.dageek.co.uk/ltsp/LTSP-Server-5.2.4-5.png

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AKA Da Geek

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