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Mar. 21st, 2005 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationEven considering how long I spent a couple of years ago getting diskless network-booting Xtubes working (including rewriting most of the freebsd rc scripts), I'm actually pretty happy to see that the Linux Terminal Server Project has reached a seriously useful level of maturity. In fact, what took me a week or so of fiddling around with DHCP (...and figuring out how to set it up so that dhcp still can run scripts even when the nfs-mounted root volume has just vanished out from under it) took me about an hour using LTSP.
It's nicely configurable, too-- very neat. Of course, I wanted to install a kernel module so it could correctly use the VIA embedded video on the EPIA ML8000 motherboard and now I have to build a whole dedicated software-building environment, from the kernel through glibc, gcc, and everything else. At least they have a fairly slick script to do this for you...
It's nicely configurable, too-- very neat. Of course, I wanted to install a kernel module so it could correctly use the VIA embedded video on the EPIA ML8000 motherboard and now I have to build a whole dedicated software-building environment, from the kernel through glibc, gcc, and everything else. At least they have a fairly slick script to do this for you...