Re: low fat clients
Richard Bos <ml-gdO6YXrzm4/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.terminal-server.devel |
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Op Sunday 30 March 2008 20:45:32 schreef Warren Togami:
> > Do the bits in rawhide support low fat clients?
Looking forward to see this available via LTSP as well (as I assume that e.g.
Google Earth needs to be run this way too, to obtain a decent performance)
> There are two answers to this...
>
> 1) Upstream was previously working on something called "local apps
> support" which allows you to boot LTSP thin clients over the network,
> login to the remote desktop, then run some applications on the clients
> themselves. This might be desirable for multimedia applications for
> example. I don't know the status of this, CC upstream. It is not a
> priority for me to get this working until we fix the more basic problems
> for Fedora, but if you can get it working I'm happy to accept patches
> for upstream. (As Fedora uses 100% upstream.)
>
> 2) It wouldn't take much to create a ltsp-build-client mode that avoids
> using ltsp-client-launch and instead runs gdm locally. You could then
> network mount /home. The hard part would be doing some kind of network
> based authentication (NIS?) You might want this mode to use a different
> set of services (normal LTSP disables most of them). You could
> implement this as a non-default /etc/ltsp/ltsp-build-client option. I
> would be very interested to discuss implementation details and to review
> patches for this if you are willing to take point.
--
Richard Bos
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