Call for help to get LTSP into Debian! I'm currently at an edubuntu conference here in London, and have spent part of the time learning more about the next generation LTSP. We have been told that the next version of LTSP will build on Ubuntu, and one of the participants at this conference, Matt Zimmerman, is the person in Ubuntu working on the integration. These are some random observation on the topic, and some pointers for more information.
The Ubuntu LTSP package is available from <URL:ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/ltsp/>. It is the extracted boot scripts from LTSP (ltsp-client), and some scripts to build the client environment (ltsp-server/ltsp-server-standalone). It also need some adjustment for the kernel used on the clients, as ut uses unionfs and also need to handle NFS root file system. Some notes on the LTSP packages in Ubuntu are available from <URL:http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientIntegration>. I've looked at this package, and note a few changes needed to get it working on Debian: - X configuration need to be adjusted. The Ubuntu version uses 'dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive xserver-xorg' to generate X configuration. For Debian/main we need a different method. I suspect we could use xdebconfigurator to do the same, if we enable the boot time regeneration feature in it. It might be better to add some hooks into this part, to make it easier for ubuntu and debian-edu to insert the feature we want. (server/ltsp-build-client, debian/ltsp-client.ltsp-client-setup.init) - Debian/sarge is missing the client dependency initramfs-tools. This is a variant of the kernel issue. We need to get the Debian kernels to support the features we need, or build our own. Neither of these issues are big deals. I suspect a few weeks should be suffucient to get LTSP into Debian proper. Matt and Mark in Ubuntu was not too interested in spending Canonical-time to make this happen, but would welcome any effort from others to make it happen. I can spend some time on it, and would welcome others to help as well. Getting LTSP into Debian would extend the user base, and also make it easier for debian-edu to continue using LTSP instead of moving to lessdisk. CC to the Ubuntu integrator and the LTSP lead developer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
