28.09.2012 15:09, theo.schm...@wilhelmtux.ch kirjoitti:
The main problem is the lack of local support, even in South Africa,
the home of Ubuntu, as the distances are usually too great. The only
successful projects are those, where staff is permanently available.
I help as an administrator for a project from Finland (I live here),
project itself is in Mexico City:
http://ltsp.org/stories/viewstory/?story_id=36&secret=465826
Yes, I needed someone to install locally very basic steps (Lubuntu
desktop i386), then I stepped in and installed ltsp-pnp by Alkis. Now I
run everything remotely - all I need is autossh (ssh -R, ssh-keygen etc).
I rent cheapest Linode server (Dallas, Texas) for ssh pipes. Every time
ltsp-pnp-server boots it pipes itself to the Linode server and wait for me.
I think I can manage every server in our project that way. And ltsp-pnp
do not need any kind of heavy server, just one desktop pc, very same as
all others in classroom.
Yes, you need few very basic things (electricity, adsl/internet) and one
person, who can copy-paste from the browser to the terminal. After that
your server just wait for you to serve you.
But I understand that environment can be very hostile out there for
computers. There are earthquakes in Mexico City (we faced one), here in
Finland never.
I started with this howto: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Autossh
Gentoo fellows usually know what they are doing ;-)
Keep on, Theo, you do good work.
Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
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