On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:30 +0200, Adriano Galano wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:29:23 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Adriano Galano wrote: > > > > > Hello: > > > > buenas, > > > Hello Xose (Buenas ;-)): > > > > Could sometbody tell me the differences between LTSP and Stateless > > > Linux project? How they compares? In wich situations is more > > > recomendable one type of the architecture or other? > > > > you can get detailed information from : > > http://people.redhat.com/~hp/stateless/StatelessLinux.pdf > > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/ > > > > Yes I read it, thanks. But I have doubs about when apply LTSP or Stateless. > What are the advantages of Stateless over LTSP deployment? A simple distinction is that with LTSP the computer is just a dumb terminal displaying programs being run on a more powerful server. Stateless installs the OS image on the client where the programs are run. This allows a person to detach the computer from the network and still have it be usable. When he/she plugs back in the user's changes are synced back to the server. It is Stateless because root setting are never changed. A user can go to another computer, log in and come up with the same desktop they had. You can do cool things like upgrade to the latest hardware simply by plugging it into the network and booting up with a stateless Linux image. It basically gives the benefits of central management of OS images that LTSP gives while still retaining the benefits of programs running directly on users hardware. So it is the best of both thin and fat client technologies. Of course there are drawbacks such as need for powerful hardware at the client and bigger disks but with hardware prices dropping so much that is not as much of a concern. Also Stateless Linux is much more than a project. It is a whole mentality on how Fedora is now developed. For instance a lot of the configurations tools for things like printers and network are being designed so they do not require root state. -- John (J5) Palmieri Associate Software Engineer Desktop Group Red Hat, Inc. Blog: http://martianrock.com
