[frgeek-michiana] Re: LTSP on VL3.2
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rbarnich@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:30:16 -0500
Free Geek Michiana is bootstrapping itself as a nonprofit. We're located in
South Bend, a few miles south of the Michigan border in north central
Indiana. Thus "michiana."
After a good deal of research I chose OpenACS (AOLserver, tcl, postgresql)
for our application development platform. I did a walk through of the web
server config file for our web site and the code for a simple form which
collects user preferences and stores them in a postgresql database.
Everyone liked it.
A supporter donated two SGI Indy 150 mhz MIPS boxes. The guys love a hack
so we are now running Debian and the above development platform on one of
the Indys at a colo in South Bend. The Indy is serving pages at
http://www.freegeekmichiana.org/. A friend says the MIPS 150 RISC cpu is
the equivalent of an Intel 486. If so, its not doing badly at all.
I hope your grandson succeeds with LTSP on VL. And we wish you the best at
migrating to LAMP.
Tom
At 08:38 AM 6/9/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Tom,
>Thanks for the response. My grandson works summers for me and he'll
>start the middle of the month. Last summer he had LTSP running on Gentoo
>a couple of months before I saw any mention of it on the boards. One of
>my projects for him is to get VL running with LTSP. I'll have him
>document his proceedure and pass it along. He's a Gentoo fan, so I'll
>probably take some flack for getting it running on VL Soho. I was
>impressed with how easy it installed and the fact that it has virtually
>everything bundled on a single cd.
>
>This past week, I built up a LAMP system. Every howto I found had
>different instructions. I had a system I had installed Gentoo on a few
>months ago, so I updated or downloaded new packages, and it worked as
>downloaded. I want to set up a server at work with MySQL for setting up
>a MRP system. Our current one is 10 years old and written in Fox Pro /
>Dbase. I'm trying to migrate the company from windows to Linux.
>
>I remember seeing posts from somebody at you site last summer. Where are
>you located? If my memory serves me, I recall that you are a community
>site or project?
>
>Thanks again and we'll be in touch,
>
>Rick Barnich
>
>
>On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 23:12, Tom Brown wrote:
>> Rick,
>>
>> I wish I could say we forged ahead and made LTSP work with VL (Slack 8.1).
>> But we haven't. Nor could I find any one who had. Not a single person
>> responded to my inquiries re LTSP on Slackware.
>>
>> At Free Geek Michiana we're currently standardized on RH 7.3 and K12LTSP.
>> At our weekly meeting last night we discussed the issue of whether to
>> abandon RH and change to Debian or Slackware and LTSP. We are tending
>> toward Debian. For better or worse K12LTSP has united with RH. I questioned
>> the decision some time back on the K12LTSP list and was handed a firm
>> rebuke. Thankfully LTSP has remained more agnostic.
>>
>> The Free Geeks like VL/Slack, and we are hoping, as Slackware becomes LSB
>> compliant, it will be a better candidate for LTSP. Until then Debian is the
>> front runner. Debian has a pretty good package management system and falls
>> between Slack (stability and reliability) and RH (pushing the envelope).
>>
>> Good luck! Keep us informed if you make Slackware work with LTSP.
>>
>
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