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First impressions of Kiwi-LTSP 0.5.0

September 22nd, 2008 by

When I find out that Kiwi-LTSP 0.5.0 packages were out I just thought NAAH another update. Then I thought again and decided gave it a testdrive and WOOT it worked like a charm. Never been better! I get everything working from the box. All I needed was add my Xorg driver (openChrome) and on extra-package dir and with the latest changes manually editing config.xml is not required anymore. add the space separated list of packages to LTSP_LOCALAPPS=”” in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp and run kiwi-ltsp-setup -s. ( http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Localapps#Adding_application_into_the_image_to_run_as_localapps ). I was running fully working LTSP thinclient enviroment.

To try it out of the box follow wiki help here and then install at least there packages. edit your /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp to fit and run kiwi-ltsp-setup (See correct value what you need):

  • kiwi-ltsp-bootimages (Kernel)
  • kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt (LTSP image)

Digging futher

Biggest happiness is on localapps they work. I could get every X app pop to my screen from thinclient. Why is this so needed.

  1. When user goes Youtube. Flash player works as expected. Full speed
  2. There is some apps that should be runned on client (Develoment/Serialport)
  3. Playing video (See 1)

Sound is working with pulseaudio (ESD in some apps).  Device mounting works as expected. Only think I can complaing is ugly LTSP start screen on LDM (I should commit another artwork!). Some other problem I should exam is that it creates working initrd but it’s size is 41mb which is HUGE! because original is something like 21mb

This was quick peek. I write more when I get really on this new season of LTSP.

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2 Responses to “First impressions of Kiwi-LTSP 0.5.0”

  1. September 22, 2008 at 13:46 |

    Hmm, the title of your post says LTSP 5.05, but your post says that you’re using Kiwi-LTSP. Do you realise that they are two different LTSP implementations?

  2. September 22, 2008 at 14:01 |

    Thanks for the spotlight on our project :)

    With the latest changes manually editing config.xml is not required anymore. add the space separated list of packages to LTSP_LOCALAPPS=”" in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp and run kiwi-ltsp-setup -s. ( http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Localapps#Adding_application_into_the_image_to_run_as_localapps )

    LDM theme is easily changeable: http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Tips_and_Tricks#Changing_LDM_theme

    The default initrd image is just 11M, not sure how you got it 41M, see initrd-ltsp we ship in kiwi-ltsp-bootimages.

    Have a lot of fun…

    -J