[mythtv-users] Diskless LTSP Frontend

[Paul Gardiner]

On 28/02/2014 17:25, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:51, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>
>> On 28/12/2013 01:58, Craig Cook wrote:
>>> I have just posted this page:
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Diskless_LTSP_Frontend
>>>
>>> This is the result of 4 days effort.
>>>
>>> Feedback welcome (good or bad;)
>>>
>>> I am happy to provide more detail on the wiki page, I am not sure what
>>> is needed though.
>>
>> I've just posted an alternative approach here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Diskless_Frontend_%28automated_creation%29, using the Kiwi
>> image creation system. It's swings and roundabouts really: one advantage
>> of Kiwi is the creation of the image is completely automated, based
>> on a recipe, so there is no need to perform manual installation
>> steps and configuration within a chroot.
>> The kiwi command does it all for you. Also the result has no
>> throwbacks to LTSP's thinclient roots, which isn't really natural
>> for mythfrontend (the X server clearly needing to run on the client
>> rather than the server).
>
> The X server always runs on the client.  It's the client applications that also must run on the client.  On a traditional thin client, the applications run on the server.

Oh yes. Thanks for putting me straight. Still, it's the automated
creation of the image that is the main advantage.

P.