Setup used in Greek Schools

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

On 10/06/2015 05:31 μμ, David Groos wrote:
> Thanks Alkis for this information!
>
> Questions:
> --I could put 2 hard drives on the classroom server and install the
> system on one HD and /home on another HD. Seems like that would
> significantly improve performance during those times when some clients
> were booting and others were logging in, but that's just an idea. Your
> guess/knowledge on this?

The root file system (/) doesn't matter much as it's aggressively cached 
in RAM, provided of course that your server does have enough RAM.
But it's nice to put /home in an SSD, since many users need write access 
there in parallel. I have no benchmarks about that yet though.


> --Any additional "suggested reading" pages? With google translate my
> Greek goes from 0 to 60 in under 10 seconds ;)

Nah, the links in the launchpad answer below cover all I've got. :)


> Finally:
> --What's a way/s I can contribute back to your/our efforts of
> ubuntu/ltsp in ed? I saw this page:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/sch-scripts/+question/228810 but it's not
> too current.

Most of the information there is still valid.

I think that one good way for people to contribute would be to sponsor 
specific tasks that they care to see implemented, for example:
  * "I'm giving $100 to any developer that adds the ability to the 
edubuntu live dvd media to boot a whole classroom of LTSP fat clients"
  * "I'm contributing $200 for the move to LTSP 6"
  * "I'm giving 50€ to any developer that solves launchpad bug #xxx".

That would support the existing development teams, and it could possibly 
attract even more developers. FLOSS is a very good development model but 
of course no developer will use it if he can't cover his expenses.

And of course documentation etc contributors are always welcome, but 
unfortunately they usually don't stay around for a long time.


Btw, about boot speed, the clients should load in about a minute (for 
some clients here, min=10 seconds, max=70), if they don't you might want 
to check your network speed.