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. >