From johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be Tue Jun 16 13:39:17 2015 From: johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be (johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:39:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [K12OSN] reduce image size / speed up boot process In-Reply-To: <922344810.59496122.1429883462701.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> References: <1958232183.51013220.1429622149918.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> <1429653278.6671.4.camel@alpaga.bursztynowski.waw.pl> <922344810.59496122.1429883462701.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> Message-ID: <1283077158.199127704.1434461957881.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> Hello All, since I added some localapps following this guide: http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/Maintenance#Update_a_Client_Image I think the booting process of my thinclients takes too long. I'm wondering if it would be possible to chroot into the environment, and remove unneeded packages like language packages, and by doing so speed up the boot process. Does anyone have experience with this? Greetings, Johan From radek at bursztynowski.waw.pl Tue Jun 16 21:11:36 2015 From: radek at bursztynowski.waw.pl (Radek Bursztynowski) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:11:36 +0200 Subject: [K12OSN] reduce image size / speed up boot process In-Reply-To: <1283077158.199127704.1434461957881.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> References: <1958232183.51013220.1429622149918.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> Message-ID: <1434489096.18407.11.camel@alpaga.bursztynowski.waw.pl> Johan, I use thin client image with a lot additional packages (including: Libre Office, Gparted, Xfburn, Firefox, Totem, SMPlayer, Krusader, Thunar, Evolution, Ekiga, Brasero, PDFEdit and many others). Most of them I installed for tests, but in fact, they are and they work. (Permanently I use Gparted, Xfburn, Thunar, Krusader.) I didn't note booting thin client slack. I don't use NBD thin client image. Best regards, Radek ----- > Hello All, > > since I added some localapps following this guide: > > http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/Maintenance#Update_a_Client_Image > > I think the booting process of my thinclients takes too long. > I'm wondering if it would be possible to chroot into the environment, and remove unneeded packages > like language packages, and by doing so speed up the boot process. > > Does anyone have experience with this? > > Greetings, Johan > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn > For more info see From johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be Wed Jun 17 11:47:04 2015 From: johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be (johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:47:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [K12OSN] reduce image size / speed up boot process In-Reply-To: <1434489096.18407.11.camel@alpaga.bursztynowski.waw.pl> References: <1958232183.51013220.1429622149918.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> <1429653278.6671.4.camel@alpaga.bursztynowski.waw.pl> <922344810.59496122.1429883462701.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> <1283077158.199127704.1434461957881.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> <1434489096.18407.11.camel@alpaga.bursztynowski.waw.pl> Message-ID: <904755959.202253600.1434541624038.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "Radek Bursztynowski" Aan: "johan vermeulen7" Cc: "Support list for open source software in schools." Verzonden: Dinsdag 16 juni 2015 23:11:36 Onderwerp: Re: [K12OSN] reduce image size / speed up boot process Johan, I use thin client image with a lot additional packages (including: Libre Office, Gparted, Xfburn, Firefox, Totem, SMPlayer, Krusader, Thunar, Evolution, Ekiga, Brasero, PDFEdit and many others). Most of them I installed for tests, but in fact, they are and they work. (Permanently I use Gparted, Xfburn, Thunar, Krusader.) I didn't note booting thin client slack. I don't use NBD thin client image. Best regards, Radek ----- > Hello All, > > since I added some localapps following this guide: > > http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/Maintenance#Update_a_Client_Image > > I think the booting process of my thinclients takes too long. > I'm wondering if it would be possible to chroot into the environment, and remove unneeded packages > like language packages, and by doing so speed up the boot process. > > Does anyone have experience with this? > > Greetings, Johan Radek, that's good to know, thanks for the feedback. I am considering making an image in Thinstation and using that in my K12Linux/Centos7 setup. One additional question: does usb work in you environment at the moment? greetings, Johan > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn > For more info see From johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be Tue Jun 30 08:00:09 2015 From: johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be (johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:00:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [K12OSN] Centos7 : some ( official )help wanted Message-ID: <1023066163.243851947.1435651209320.JavaMail.root@telenet.be> Hello, I have good results on our first site where we run K12Linux on Centos7 and I am about to ugrade a second, larger site as well. I just had a look at the K12Linux website again and just wanted to say I don't agree with this: Modern users probably do not want to use this type of thin client because video (like Youtube) requires too much bandwidth over remote X desktops, and scalability of X over ssh encrypted tunnels is rather poor. K12Linux is considered a legacy solution for existing deployments of LTSP-type networks and is currently supported only on the legacy EPEL6 platform. Porting to more modern systemd-based Fedora and EPEL7 is technically possible but is not considered a priority given the drawbacks of the legacy LTSP solution. I think a lot of organsisations have employees who 's first priority is not watching youtube, all though my users have no problems with that on K12Linux. What hurts me is that because people can not get this to work on Centos7/Rhel7, they are moving to Ubuntu. I have K12Linux/Centos6 running for about 3 years, and it's incredibly robust. And I think it's the same on Centos7. greetings, Johan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: