Re: MIDI

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 23:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:43, Craig White wrote:
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In this instance, it's evident that if I don't have to run any specific
Macintosh software on these systems, Fedora it is - even if I can't
locate PPC based versions of things like flash/etc.

As clients, you wouldn't have to worry about that since the
apps run on the server.
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+1 for thin client
-1 for thin client because some applications run much better on client

If you want to work at it, you can run local apps on thin clients
although it is supposed to get easier in the next version.

take a good look at the k12ltsp distro which is essentially
fedora with the ability to boot thin clients included in the base
install.
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I've been on the mail list for a few years but have never implemented it. We have it as an option but to implement, we will have to buy 1 big iron system for the server.


I normally install their version as a matter of course instead of
the corresponding fedora or centos base versions. Even if you don't
use the added ltsp/educational programs there are some advantages.
Since they are released a bit later, they are remastered with
current updates applied, some default settings are improved, and
there are scripted installs for some things like acrobat, flash
and webmin that save a little time.
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flash is one of those things that runs better as a local app than off
the server as I understand it (LTSP).

I've got a fairly hefty post-install script that runs after kickstart
which basically...

grabs a tarball from one of my servers and copies files into place that:
- installs flash
- installs RPM-GPG keys from livna/dag/dries/matthias (just in case)
- various certificates for my network
- replaces /etc/hosts, /etc/ldap.conf, /etc/nsswitch (ldap / padl)
- installs sshd authorized keys
- installs conf files for my local repos (so yum uses my 'yam' fc6 repo)
- installs non-fc rpms from 'local' repository (there aren't many)
- configures automatic 'mounts'
- installs yum-updatesd.conf

It's working really well. Once yum-updatesd works like it's supposed to,
it will be great.

The issue is that a thin station or a Celeron type 3.0 GHz box with a
60Gb HD and 512Mb are about the same price and if we simply consider the
Celeron box as disposable if we can't re-install everything, we don't
have to purchase the big iron fat server for the thin clients. But LTSP
is there if we decide to change course.

Craig

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