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tom brough wrote: > Well done Rob, and thanks for all your hard work. It was great to see > how easy it was just to plug in the server and the firewall and have a > couple of workstations up and running. But I know from personal > experience that setting up an LTSP server, while a lot of fun is also > very time consuming. > > Yep, I found using Ubuntu it wasn't too bad to get the basic system up and running (just boot from the Ubuntu Alternative CD, press F4 at the boot screen and select LTSP server) but it can be time consuming locking things down which I still didn't manage to fully finish off although it should stop some of the users trying to play and change things. What I did find disappointing was that some applications didn't seem to work too well, Tuxtype was one of these where it would work fine, it wasn't possible to quit it. I guess this would have to run as a local application on the client itself, something I will look into at a later date. > The children seemed to gain access without any problems and although the > attention was predominantly on flash games the network coped more than > adequately. > Yep, it was great to see them just sit at the terminal and just get started straight away. They found the Firefox icon straight away and got started. There were also a couple of other visitors (mums of the kids I presume) who managed to find the Gnome games. There wasn't anyone who asked where the start menu was, they just clicked the Applications menu and got started. > It was good to see people other than the usual DCGLUG members enjoying > using GNU/Linux technologies. LTSP really is a good solution for > clustered desktop environments and it's a shame that we dont see enough > of it in use..... its time will come soon I hope. > Well hopefully we can raise some more interest with community centres around Devon & Cornwall now as we've got an LTSP installation up and running now to demonstrate it actually working. Maybe if we can get one installed in Torbay we could then also try and find community centres in other areas (say North Devon, Mid Devon, West Devon & Cornwall). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html