[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Presenting me and TCOS project

[MarioDebian]

Hi everyone,

I'm Mario Izquierdo from Valladolid (Spain).
I met some of the people in this list some weeks ago in Sevilla
(Olivert and Vagrant at least).

For others that don't know about my work, it's about a new thin client
project called TCOS (Thin Client Operating System).

The purpose of this mail is to colaborate with pkg-ltsp team, if
possible, since TCOS has entered in Debian NEW queue:

http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Why another thin client project?

We have been mantaining an open access classroom at my university for
more than five years, using some thin clients implementations such as
LTSP, PXES, ThinStation and so on.

Last year some mates and myself created a small company to install
thin client classrooms in schools around our region.

To give full support and usability to those classrooms, we need a good
sound support (our users are usually kids between 4-8YO) and an easy
control panel. One year ago this specs didn't exist in LTSP and PXES
projects so I started TCOS.

So following that TCOS has this purposes:

* Not using NFS (if thin clients have more RAM than a configurable
limit, e.g. 38Mb)
* Use system binaries, libs and kernel (no patches)
* KISS (avoid using shell)
* Better sound support
* Magic mount devices (using ltspfs and python)

TCOS gets system files and generates a initramfs and a usr.squashfs file:

http://wiki.tcosproject.org/TCOS/Introduction

Another reason for this mail is beacuse of ltspfs packages.

I used my own ltspfs packages before and now, when TCOS arrives in
Debian, I must use Debian packages. ltspfsd package is prepared to be
installed into NFS chroot and if it is installed in the server, maybe,
some udev rules will break other things :(

|-- etc
|   `-- udev
|       `-- rules.d
|           `-- 88-ltsp.rules
|-- lib
|   `-- udev
|       |-- add_fstab_entry
|       `-- remove_fstab_entry
`-- usr
    |-- bin
    |   `-- ltspfsd
    |-- sbin
    |   |-- cdpinger
    |   |-- delayed_mounter
    |   |-- ltspfs_mount
    |   `-- ltspfs_umount

Is there any possibility to split this package and put udev rules in
another package?

If I try to upload a new ltspfsd package, the ftp-masters will kill me :-p

Cheers.

[1] http://wiki.tcosproject.org/People/Successfull/EupVa
-- 
Mario Izquierdo
http://soleup.eup.uva.es/mariodebian
http://www.tcosproject.org