Cutting-edge LTSP
Jigish Gohil
passed Milestone2, development work on KIWI-LTSP[2] using openSUSE
11.2 base has started, with that we get a host of new features.
The highlights of new packages:
- Uses clicfs for NBD/AOE root image. Clicfs: Compressed Loop Image
Container is a file system created by Stephan Kulow[3]. So we do not
need squashfs and aufs anymore for LTSP images. Clicfs gives better
compression, image size is about 10% smaller than same image created
using squashfs.
- Kernel 2.6.30
- New look[4] by Samyak Bhuta
- New xorg, CONFIGURE_X in lts.conf no longer necessary
The packages are available in server:ltsp[5] repository.
Follow these instructions to test the development packages on already
configured LTSP server:
#Take backup so system can be restored as it is if something do go wrong
mv /srv/kiwi-ltsp/i386.img /srv/kiwi-ltsp/i386-squashfs.img
mv /srv/tftpboot/boot /srv/tftpboot/boot-old
#remove current images
rpm -e kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt kiwi-ltsp-bootimages --nodeps
#add repository and install development packages
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_11.1
server:ltsp
zypper in kiwi-ltsp-bootimages-unstable kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt-unstable</code>
Bugs, feature requests go on http://devzilla.novell.com/kiwi-ltsp/ .
See http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP#Communicate for more ways to give
feedback.
Happy testing...
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP
[3] http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/coolo/
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live/Screenshots#openSUSE_thin_theme
[5] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/
Jigish Gohil
Unstable or the development version images of KIWI-LTSP (LTSP5 on
openSUSE) have been updated. The prebuilt and bootimages are created
using openSUSE 11.2 Milestone4, the latest development release of
upcoming 11.2 release.
Follow the Instructions in previous mail(below) for testing the
development version on openSUSE 11.1.
Kind regards
-J