[Pkg-ltsp-devel] About Fat Clients

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Marc Fargas]
> I'm now planning to deploy Debian on about 40-50 machines but while
> some of them are really old and would benefit on running things on a
> server some of them can handle all processing power by themselves,
> therefore; Is there any Fat Client support? so they use LTSP to get
> the rootfs and so but run apps locally, not on the server. While still
> being able to have some other boxes to use LTSP normally.

Debian Edu/Skolelinux have a script to enable diskless workstation
support in LTSP.  We already have LDAP authentication enabled, so this
is mostly a question of installing application locally and making sure
the machine still boot with a read-only file system.

Check out <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/LtspDisklessWorkstation>
for info on how to enable it.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen