Re: LTSP or Stateless Linux
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:16 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
A simple distinction is that with LTSP the computer is just a dumb
terminal displaying programs being run on a more powerful server.
Stateless installs the OS image on the client where the programs are
run. This allows a person to detach the computer from the network and
still have it be usable.
Don't confuse the "cached client" mode with stateless linux in general.
The idea is that we treat an NFS root filesystem with only an X server
installed (similar to LTSP) in the same framework as an NFS root
filesystem with a full set of apps installed, or the cached client mode,
or a live CD mode. The definition I would give of stateless linux in
general is "sharing the same OS instance between multiple
machines" (which implies the OS instance is read-only, and contains no
per-machine state - those are the things that require OS changes)
Havoc