-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16-06-2005 20:56, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>>The short answer is that lessdisks demands a bit more memory than LTSP, >>>because LTSP uses swap over NFS. >> >>If you want swap over NFS then make a Debian kernel package with support >>for swap over NFS. It is not provided officially in Debian because it is >>considered too rarely needed for the maintainance burden of an extra >>kernel with the unofficial patch applied. > > > that is a considerable amount of extra work, though. i used to maintain > a kernel for lessdisks and dreaded a new kernel release because of the > extra work that meant (i mostly just didn't update it often enough). > > so i can understand the appeal of just grabbing a kernel from some other > source. someone could probably build a debian package from the binary LTSP > kernels that would work with lessdisks- obviously you couldn't build it > from source that way, but it would reduce some of the workload.
I don't think we disagree, but just to make sure noone misinterprets this as "Lessdisks *is* more complicated to use than LTSP": For the local admin it is off course considerable work to build a custom kernel. But for a distro like Skolelinux it is much less of a burden to include (and security-maintain!) a custom kernel than an LTSP kernel package. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsdNQn7DbMsAkQLgRAseaAJ4o8PMCuHQruwCCRp1GqoBGBlDsPACfStlF Rwofd2KpIHFaJfMLCtc6GUY= =BARD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
