[tech] More PC's/Thin Terms

Daniel J. Axtens danielax at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 10:17:55 WST 2009


> I've set up LTSP on martello, the T5730 in UCC has been renamed to
> canevas[1] and now netboots LTSP. For those not familiar, LTSP works by
> taking the username and password then sshing in to the server and running
> things from there. Using martello as the LTSP host isn't idea however:
>  - It uses /home, not /away like all the other clubroom machines
>  - KDE and GNOME take up a fair bit of space
>
> Possible options include setting up a new server that mounts /away as
> /home, or running apps locally like the old blackboxes did, but better
> done as in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients

Would one of the rack-mounted servers we got recently work as a server?

-- d
[DJA]



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