On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 23:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:43, Craig White wrote: > > ---- > > > > In this instance, it's evident that if I don't have to run any specific > > > > Macintosh software on these systems, Fedora it is - even if I can't > > > > locate PPC based versions of things like flash/etc. > > > > > > As clients, you wouldn't have to worry about that since the > > > apps run on the server. > > ---- > > +1 for thin client > > -1 for thin client because some applications run much better on client > > If you want to work at it, you can run local apps on thin clients > although it is supposed to get easier in the next version. > > > take a good look at the k12ltsp distro which is essentially > > > fedora with the ability to boot thin clients included in the base > > > install. > > ---- > > I've been on the mail list for a few years but have never implemented it. We have it as an option but to implement, we will have to buy 1 big iron system for the server. > > > I normally install their version as a matter of course instead of > the corresponding fedora or centos base versions. Even if you don't > use the added ltsp/educational programs there are some advantages. > Since they are released a bit later, they are remastered with > current updates applied, some default settings are improved, and > there are scripted installs for some things like acrobat, flash > and webmin that save a little time. ---- flash is one of those things that runs better as a local app than off the server as I understand it (LTSP). I've got a fairly hefty post-install script that runs after kickstart which basically... grabs a tarball from one of my servers and copies files into place that: - installs flash - installs RPM-GPG keys from livna/dag/dries/matthias (just in case) - various certificates for my network - replaces /etc/hosts, /etc/ldap.conf, /etc/nsswitch (ldap / padl) - installs sshd authorized keys - installs conf files for my local repos (so yum uses my 'yam' fc6 repo) - installs non-fc rpms from 'local' repository (there aren't many) - configures automatic 'mounts' - installs yum-updatesd.conf It's working really well. Once yum-updatesd works like it's supposed to, it will be great. The issue is that a thin station or a Celeron type 3.0 GHz box with a 60Gb HD and 512Mb are about the same price and if we simply consider the Celeron box as disposable if we can't re-install everything, we don't have to purchase the big iron fat server for the thin clients. But LTSP is there if we decide to change course. Craig
