Hello Community

I am happy to announce another release of KIWI-LTSP - LTSP5
implementation on openSUSE using KIWI imaging technology.

The major changes from the last release are:

- kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt image built from openSUSE 11.0 RC1
- We are not using aufs again, replacing split image system
- Fix for Blank screen instead of LDM
- Mount of local device now properly shows up on users’ desktop

Installation instructions remain the same:

1. Use kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt 1-click install from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/
2. Put your server IP address, dhcp interface to use and dhcp IP range
you want to give to the clients in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp either via
your favourite text editor or YaST sysconfig editor GUI.
3. Run kiwi-ltsp-setup -c

You can now pxeboot clients.

Bugs, enhancement requests, patches welcome at
http://devzilla.novell.com/kiwi-ltsp/ . For live help you can always
drop in IRC Freenode #ltsp or #kiwi.

Have a lot of fun!

The coding for the Google Summer of Code 08 officially has started from 26th May. Here is the status of our project.

* The transcript of our weekly meeting can be found here.
* The documentation including project specification is here.
* Initial code for the project is already in svn repository.
* The project page including instructions about how to access svn is here.
* Jan weber, the SOC student is keeping his blog updated with the progress of the project.

The project is development of GUI for LTSP in Mono, so if you are familiar with Mono have a look at the code once in a while and give your feedback.

Just back from a two day ZenWorks Linux Management training at Novell office in Bombay. On the third day, did a little bit of tourist thing, visited Kanheri Caves.

Here are some of the pictures.

Rest of the images here.

Hello Community

Here is another milestone of KIWI-LTSP - a LTSP5 implementation on openSUSE using KIWI imaging technology.

Major changes from the last release are:

• Boot and LTSP images based on openSUSE 11.0 Beta3
• Patches from Jacob Parry for lbmount fixing ownership and permissions. HPJ is working on getting GNOME patched up to fix mounts  showing on all users.
• Added ltsp-build-client and ltsp-server-initialize wrapper scripts in preparation for LTSP GUI
• Added python so jetpipe for printing works once again
• Synced all ltsp packages with upstream

Follow these three simple steps to get LTSP5 on openSUSE:

1. 1-click install of kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt image from
http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP (about 100M image, so need good internet
connection)

2. Edit /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp either via YaST sysconfig editor GUI
or any text editor of your preference, fill in server IP, name server
and dhcp IP range to give to all clients.

3. Run ltsp-server-initialize to configure and enable all the required services

Thanks to Lars Vogdt, founder and maintainer of openSUSE-Edu project, we now have KIWI-LTSP integrated in upcoming openSUSE-Edu release for 10.3 as well as 11.0.

In case you need to customize how the thin client behave, change /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf. Explanation of what you can put there is given here: http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/customizing-thin-client.html

We are working on a GUI to manage the lts.conf and other configuration as a part of Google Summer of Code, Jan Weber is keeping records of
the progress so far here: http://www.luckylemon.de/ and the project white board with more information is here: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Easy-LTSP

Thanks to all who have contributed to the project, especially gbolte and japerry for all the testing and patches.

Have a lot of fun!

-J

As I build fglrx drivers for personal use and have to build them on every update of kernel from the patches and specs created by sndirsch over at X11:Drivers:Video repository on openSUSE Build Service, I decided to share them here in case someone wants to test Compiz and other 3D stuff on Beta3.

The packaging is not distribution quality, just posting as I found a lot of visitors refered from google search with ATI fglrx on openSUSE 11.0.

Here are the steps to perform in shell as root:

• Make sure you are running exactly the following kernel(openSUSE installs pae kernel, install the default one for these drivers to work) :

uname -a
Linux prime 2.6.25.3-2-default #1 SMP 2008-05-10 07:46:36 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

• wget -c http://giannaros.org/other/cyberorg/ati/fglrx-drivers-2.6.25.3-2-default-i586.tar.bz2

•  tar xvf fglrx-drivers-2.6.25.3-2-default-i586.tar.bz2

•  rpm -Uvh *fglrx* –force –nodeps (required as I’ve been lazy changing the version miss-match, note that there are double-dashes in front of force and nodeps, wordpress messes them up)

•  init 3

•  sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

•  init 5

•  Run simple-ccsm as normal user and enable “Desktop Effects”

Did you note that there is no editing of xorg.conf? BTW, you won’t have to do all this hard work when 11.0 is released as the drivers would be available via 1-click and directly through yast when you add ATI/NVIDIA repo. All thanks to openSUSE’s X team and Stefan Dirsch

Have a lot of fun!

Hi Folks,

First let me ask you all the check out the cool new look of my blog, yes it is green, getting ready to paint the world green to welcome openSUSE 11.0. Thanks Ryx for creating this great theme and iXce for fixing it up for me.

openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 was quitely released yesterday, I am running it at the moment, needless to say it is shaping out real well. Get it from here if you haven’t already.

Jan Weber, our Google Summer of Code student this year is all set to start coding for the project at the end of the month. Follow his blog to keep up with the progress  he is making. He is currently working on a proof of concept of his design ideas.You can also participate in the project and influence the course it takes over the next few months. Check out the project white board for the status reports, meeting transcripts, task list etc.

The project also featured on the Linux Journal, nice article on current state of LTSP by Shawn Powers, the Associate Editor for Linux Journal. Go digg it

Thanks to Rodrigo’s work, simple-ccsm now has a switch to easily enable/disable Compiz.

On openSUSE 11.0 users will not have to fiddle with any commandline, hack scripts or xorg.conf to enable Compiz. AIGLX is enabled by default on all the supported hardwares, and as soon as ATI/NVIDIA drivers are installed via 1-click, so all that is required is launch simple-ccsm (Desktop Effects) application and enable compiz.

In case you are wondering what theme I am using, it is just the default openSUSE gilouch theme, greened just the way I like it. Download and drag and drop the tarball on “Appearence” caplet if you want it too.

Here is one more of “cube” mode to make users of other OS jealous

openSUSE users grab compiz-fusion-git packages from home:cyberorg (experimental/unstable) repository. Wait till all the packages (except emerald*) are synced out to the mirrors and have the same version (080502).