[mythtv-users] Diskless frontends?

[Tim Litwiller]

We've only used it in an all linux ( as far as clients go ) environment 
so far - school had p166's with 64 meg and windows 98se so we put in a 
p4 2.8ghz k12ltsp server added a network boot option to the win98 boot 
menu and made that the default.  If they need 95 for some odd reason 
they reboot and have 5 seconds to choose windows before booting back to 
a linux thin client.  Even the teachers that where against it use it 
now, because win98 takes 10 - 12 minutes to get going on those machines 
and the ltsp boot takes less than 1 minute including login (typing 
username and password) time. 



Jarod Wilson wrote:

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>On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:57, Tim Litwiller wrote:
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>>We are using this is a private school with 16 terminals and they all
>>have local (at the terminal sound).
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>>It just doesn't work in Kde.  But it works fine in gnome and icewm.
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>Oh really? Cool! Good to know... I'm a KDE guy, but I may have to try that 
>out... Any idea of whether it works with xfce4? And do you know if that works 
>only in an all-Linux environment, or does it also work to a remote X session 
>w/Cygwin or Apple's X11?
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>>Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
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>>>On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Tim Litwiller wrote:
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>>>>If you want an easy to setup ltsp server based on fedora core 1, get
>>>>k12ltsp - then start configuring from there to make a diskless myth
>>>>client.
>>>>http://k12ltsp.org/
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>>>That still doesn't fix the sound issue for remote X sessions, while
>>>nomachine might... But yes, that's a good starting point. Red Hat's
>>>own redhat-config-netboot (or system-config-netboot on Fedora) also
>>>works quite well.
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>>>>Jarod Wilson wrote:
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>>>>>On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:44, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>>>>On Tuesday 08 June 2004 11:59, Jarod Wilson wrote:
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>>>>>>>For Myth to
>>>>>>>properly function (i.e., if you want sound), you have to run
>>>>>>>everything client-side.
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>>>>>>Ever check this out?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.nomachine.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I've always wanted to delve into this, but haven't had the time.
>>>>>>Aside
>>>>>>from an interesting & efficient method of proxying X protocol, they
>>>>>>also support network-transparent sound of some sort.  Their white
>>>>>>paper(s) are interesting reads.
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>>>>>Its been a while, but I did look at that some time back. I'd
>>>>>forgotten about it. Forwarding sound does seem to be about the only
>>>>>thing missing for running remote X Myth sessions, which could also
>>>>>theoretically work with Cygwin's X client and Mac OS X's X11...
>>>>>          
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