The 4GB problem

[nigel barker]

David Van Assche wrote:
>
> Anyway I would love to know a better way to make workstation thin 
> clients using LTSP instead... any ideas?

This is possible in Debian-edu/Skolelinux. They call it "diskless 
workstations" and I've been using it for over  a year with great 
success. It really eases the load on the LTSP server by shifting a lot 
of processing to the client. Your client needs to be a lot beefier than 
a thin one - at least a 1GHz with 256, I would say.
These clients even stay up through a reboot of the server. They freeze 
while it reboots, then pick up where they left off.  Local devices work 
great (sound in flash, etc.)

nigel
>
> On 10/30/07, *Oliver Grawert* < ogra at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:ogra at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     hi,
>     Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 14:23 +0100 schrieb David Van Assche:
>     > Hi Nicolas,
>     >    I looked into the possibility of using edubuntu as a thin client
>     > server for 'fat clients', sometimes called workstations...
>     Basically,
>     > each client gets its own chroot
>     thats a pretty insane setup, why not use the same chroot for all users
>     and mount /home from the server, user settings and data are only saved
>     in the home dir so there is no point in having a gigabyte sized
>     chroot
>     for everyone that only duplicates the system files multiple times ...
>
>     ciao
>             oli
>
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