[mythtv-users] Best options/howto for diskless frontends

[Patrick Ouellette]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:25:24PM +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
> For reference LTSP under Debian "Just Works". Once I figured out
> which chicken to sacrifice (the docs are a little obscure for my
> liking) I just ran the scripts and it all worked out of the tin.
> 
> I wouldn't dream of running a front end that way, though. You would
> have to make it a 'local app' since there's no chance in hell you
> can run the video over remote X from the server*. For a workstation
> LTSP is fine, though.
> 
> * It's perfectly possible to run the setup and walk through the
> front-end menus screens via LTSP. Just don't try and watch anything
> that way.

You make it a "fat client" and everything runs on the frontend machine
locally.  Works just fine.

Pat