After trying out KIWI, I am really impressed with it’s flexibility and ease of use in creating various images such as Stephan’s KDE4 Live (which incidentally has people going nuts over it with about 30 downloads going on at a time). KIWI has made it possible for everyone to create their own distro!

This led me to think how we can extend it a bit more and help us get LTSP 5 on SUSE. LTSP 5 is currently integrated only in Debian and Ubuntu, thanks to the great work by Jammcq, Ogra, Scott and others.

We have launched an effort to get LTSP 5 on SUSE. In that quest James Tremblay called an IRC Meeting to discuss how we can go about getting this task done. Within 24 hours Marcus Schaefer, the developer of KIWI project already implemented diskless client booting off from NFS shared chroot in KIWI, this was one of the features we requested. Now that is some very quick response by a SUSE engineer to community need.

Thanks to that we now have something like very early LTSP implementation, the major task of going through all the LTSP scripts and adapting them to suite SUSE will take some time and help from anyone who would like to contribute.

So if you are a developer and can spare some time for this project look us up on IRC #opensuse-kiwi or on Factory ML.