Hi folks, While we all wait for Stateless Linux to arrive, we've put together a tiny little package that addresses a much simplified version of the Stateless Linux problem: the oldie but goodie X terminal. Use Case: you have a server, a small number of clients (<5), boxes that can PXE boot, and you just want to run them stateless off of your server. To make things even simpler, you loaded FC4 on the server, and you want your clients to just boot the exact software that's already installed, so you don't have to worry about maintaining two images. Being a small install, you are not too worried about internal hackers, but you are concerned about your brain cells, and want to spend as few as possible on this problem. Well, lxterminal is for you! Where: http://www.lattica.com/lxterminal/ How: http://www.lattica.com/lxterminal/README RPM: http://www.lattica.com/lxterminal/lxterminal-0.5-1.i386.rpm OS: Fedora Core 4 This is in no way a replacement of Stateless Linux. However, the simple X terminal model is not bad for small number of clients where you can actually get increased performance from sharing code in memory between users. IOW it should work quite well in small installations. The package has seen little testing outside of our network, so don't hesitate to report problems :) It currently works with FC4 only, we'd love to get it to work with the upcoming FC5, and even FC3. If people find this package useful, we can move the project over to SourceForge to get a decent collaboration environment, and the RPM to Extras. Any and all feedback is much appreciated. You can either write to this list (if there's any significant volume, we'll move it over to SF in a heartbeat), or to me personally. Enjoy! -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
