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