[CentOS] CentOs6 - Ltsp

[Johan Vermeulen]

  Hello Les,

thanks for the reply.

I'll just go back to CentOs 5.6 then.

Any chance you could point me to a wiki or guide to get ltsp installed 
on CentOs 5.6?

greetings, James

Op 08-08-11 17:52, Les Mikesell schreef:
> On 8/8/2011 8:43 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
>>     Dear All,
>>
>> I'm sending this mail in relation to a post on the CentOs 6 forum :
>>
>>
>> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32545&start=0#forumpost139559
>>
>> CentOs 6  works great so far, and I do not want to sound impatient, but
>> I'm eager to find out when Ltsp would be
>> available on CentOs6 - or even in Rhel6.
>>
>> We now use Kiwi-Ltsp on OpenSuse and there's a hot debate going on,
>> everyone wants to switch to Ubuntu, I want to switch to CentOs.
>>
>> So any timeline would be very helpfull in this dogfight.
> The project is looking for contributors to fund development:
> https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/2011FundDrive
>
> And even with the basics working, it is going to be a problem that the
> stock (and client) kernel is PAE-only.  I've always considered this an
> interesting project and particularly liked the k12ltsp distribution up
> through the CentOS5 based version that you can still find here:
> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/
> There are a few quirks/conflicts when you update this to 5.6 but it can
> still be done.
>
> However, after that version it was moved into stock fedora packages for
> subsequent development and broke due to fedora's fast changing nature.
> I don't currently use any thin terminals, but if I did I'd probably
> stick to the k12ltsp5EL version for booting for a while and perhaps try
> to point the gdm login to a newer host.  Or for booting 'fat' clients
> I'd look at drbl - or there may be a service included in Centos6 that
> will work.  Or ubuntu might be the way to go since I think it still has
> an i386 kernel, or at least non-PAE.
>