Linux Terminal Server Project
What can I say…LTSP is cool! I have had a plan in the works for a while to implement LTSP at work for a key group of users. Over the last couple of weeks we have been expirementing with various distributions and setups to see which would best server our purpose and give us the best performance.
In the end we decided to go with CentOS 4.2 installed on the server and downloading the LTSP installer from the projects website and setting it up on our own. We also decided to create a new subnet for the LTSP users to segment the network traffic.
Eariler this week we put the whole thing into production and currently have 4 users running off of it. The LTSP server is a quad Xeon PIII 700 mhz system with 3 GB of RAM. The client computers are PII 400 mhz systems with 192 MB of RAM. Performance on these machines using LTSP clearly exceeds the performance of the OS installed on the machines themselves. It also gives us a central machine to manage rather than having to manage and update each individual workstation.
Over the next few weeks we intend on migrating at least three other users over to the LTSP system and then we will go from there to see what other users we can convert.
The users primary needs include email access, working with office documents, and limited web browesing. For this we use Evolution, OpenOffice.org, and Firefox.
Interesting Item I discovered today:
SUSE originally stood for “Software and System Development” in German. It was orginally based off of Slackware and later integrated with another distribution called Jurix.
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