On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:
The beauty of the original K12LTSP respin was that just you did a normal fill-in-the-form install pretty much like any fedora/centos
If you insist on having a whole OS dedicated to this, I guess you could go fork Raspbian (http://www.raspbian.org/) and add this stuff to the installer.
I'm not insisting on anything, I just don't see a typical classroom teacher doing that - in addition to knowing what to set up on the server side to match. Where they could just follow some simple instructions with the LTSP install and come up working.
Even over the scale of a whole school district, I’d think maintaining a Raspbian fork just to get the x2go config into the installation process would be more difficult.
Agreed, but K12LTSP worked mostly as-is for a lot of districts.
If you’re waiting for someone else to do the work, you may be sitting there waiting for a long time. One of the rules of the game that the Pi changes is the value of centralized computing. 30 seats times $40 (including PSU) pretty much balances out the cost of the central server.
I don't need it myself - I'm just surprised that someone hasn't done it already in a way that would be useful without everyone having to start from scratch themselves. And maybe that's not even the best approach - maybe a 'fat' client with NFS-mounted or cloud-like storage would be better if there is an automated way to keep it up to date without letting the user modify things. I guess these days you'd have to balance the cost of administering the things against buying a chromebook.