On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:58:28PM -0500, William Park wrote:

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Incorrect. PXE is about getting a kernel loaded into memory, the same job and purpose as etherboot, netboot or romamatic. PXE facilitates LTSP it definitely does not obsolete it.

Here we go again... After you boot and mount NFS root, you're looking at the root tree that used to be local harddisk (except now it's remote). You tell me why LTSP is necessary.

Perhaps the workstations are decrepit and/or have too little memory to run apps and X at an appropriate speed. LTSP creates thin clients. Mounting your root filesystem over NFS creates a thick client, which runns all applications locally only saves you the cost of remote administration and hard disks. -- taa The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas. /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml