Hello Community

I am happy to announce the release of KIWI-LTSP 0.5.0. This time around there is a big version bump as I now consider LTSP5 implementation on openSUSE production ready. Now you can boot up your entire lab with openSUSE with all Education goodies without having to touch any of the client’s hard disks.

Release Notes:

* Based on KIWI v2.75
This fixes one critical bug that prevented low end hardwares like LTSP 150 from booting, now they  should work
* LTSP packages are the latest snapshot of today(080912).
LTSP 5.1.24
LTSPFS/D 0.5.4
LDM2-2.0.12 with a patch from Ryan Niebur for fixing input box location
* New volume control variables from Warren and Gadi. Enable sound volume setting variables from LTSP-4.2. VOLUME, HEADPHONE_VOLUME, PCM_VOLUME, CD_VOLUME, FRONT_VOLUME. Set values higher than default if not specified in lts.conf. MIC_VOLUME not set by default, but can be controlled by /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf.
* xrexec script is renamed as ltsp-localapps, so to launch firefox run: “ltsp-localapps /usr/bin/firefox”[1]

Check out the video here for installation instructions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCDfnImh67E

To update from already installed prebuilt image run these commands as root:

zypper refresh
zypper up -t package -r openSUSE:Tools
zypper up -t package -r server:ltsp

That should update the images provided the repositories are named as above.

More complete information see here: http://en.opensuse.org/Category:LTSP

As always, feedback welcome, our bug tracker is here: http://devzilla.novell.com/kiwi-ltsp/, if you need any live help drop into #ltsp (for ltsp only) or #kiwi-ltsp(for anything related to kiwi-ltsp), I’ll be happy to help if around.

Have a lot of fun…