LTSP 5 + localapps

[samtay]

Hey everyone,


Can any one tell me what happing with LTSP 5 and localapps, I just can't seem to find any information on the matter. I have been searching all morning.

Cheers
Samuel Taylor

[samtay]

Bump

[lykwydchykyn]

I've used LTSP 4.1 in the past, and I'm also trying to get up to speed on LTSP 5. By localapps, I assume you mean apps installed in the client chroot (hazy on some of the terminology, my LTSP setup was pretty basic).

In LTSP 5 the client chroot is (by default) built using native Ubuntu packages, then compressed into a squashfs image which is shared out by a nbd server (network block device -- I never heard of it before LTSP 5).

I discovered the best documentation on it is all in the edubuntu handbook. It has a pretty good explanation of how it works and how to customize things in the client image.

Here's the link:

http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/server.html

Hope that helps!

[samtay]

just to update anyone, I was on irc asking about localapps and it should be possible in 8.10.