RE: [school-discuss] LTSP First Time

[Seb James <seb@hypercubesystems.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:27, daniel.hunt@iibbank.ie wrote:
> > It's possible to run local applications with LTSP; I've experimented
> > with a couple, but only standard applications. You have to take some
> > care in making all the libraries available for running the applications
> > on the client machine, but it ought to be possible.
> 
> Yeah I had heard about this .. but i haven't gotten round to testing it
> myself yet
> i have a network at home with a redhat 9.0 server that uses samba to host
> files to my 2 other machines on the network. unfortunately, one of those
> machines uses an nforce2 chipset so my kernel can't support it's onboard gfx
> :( annoying piece of sh*t :o)

nforce2 northbridge chipsets shouldn't cause any problems - I've booted
motherboards with nforce2 northbridge chipsets as clients here.

> but on the 3rd machine i can run LTSP on it with no problems at all. but i
> thought that you needed NOTHING except a bucket of RAM on the client
> machines .. even if you wanted to do local apps. i thought that the whole
> app is loaded into memory? am i wrong with that?

Not at all. The program is loaded into local memory. The point is that
you have to make all portions of the local application available to the
client machine, including any shared libraries that the application
needs. This means putting the program + libraries in the /opt/ltsp/i386/
directory structure that the client then has access to over NFS.

> > When my job list gets down as far as "getting that client machine with
> > the fast graphics card booting a specially compiled kernel" I'll have a
> > go at running something locally;
> 
> I'll tell you what, i'm giving you special permission to do it tonight and
> you may report back to me with your findings tomorrow morning :p

And pigs might fly....... ;-)