On Wednesday 27 October 2004 15:27, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:16 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > 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. > > Don't confuse the "cached client" mode with stateless linux in general. > The idea is that we treat an NFS root filesystem with only an X server > installed (similar to LTSP) in the same framework as an NFS root > filesystem with a full set of apps installed, or the cached client mode, > or a live CD mode. The definition I would give of stateless linux in > general is "sharing the same OS instance between multiple > machines" (which implies the OS instance is read-only, and contains no > per-machine state - those are the things that require OS changes) > > Havoc Sounds like the way I had Redhat8 and RedHat 9 at my library. one large read-only nfs share for /, and a 128MB ramdisk for /tmp so users could save files, that kind of thing. -- Public Key available Here: http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/rjune.asc
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