After two years of development, LTSP 5.2 is out
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After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, I'm proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. Here is a link to the main page
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As describing everything that changed between LTSP 5.1 and 5.2 would take a lot of pages, here's instead a list of what one can do with LTSP 5.2:
- Boot a Debian/Fedora/Gentoo/Ubuntu environment using PXE (dhcp + tftp) and connect to an application server using SSH and X11.
- Either run the whole session remotely or run select applications locally to use specific hardware or advance 3D capabilities
- If running Ubuntu, run everything locally and only select applications remotely (that's called Fat Client)
- Support for RDP sessions using rdesktop
- Working local block devices like harddisks, floppy disks and cd-rom drives (thanks to ltspfs)
- Easily extensible thanks to an amazing plugin infrastructure, providing hooks pretty much everywhere
- Multi-lingual support in LDM and most of our scripts
- Scalable to thousands of thin clients, at least on Ubuntu, thanks to LTSP-Cluster
- Complete documentation, in the LTSP handbook
- Active and supporting community, mostly on the various mailing-lists and #ltsp (freenode)
Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available in my PPA.
For other distributions, I'm expecting packages to be available very soon. If you want to check out the code, it's on Launchpad.
No release are perfect, so if you find bugs, please report them here (for LTSP), here (for LTSP in Ubuntu) or here (for LTSP-Cluster). |
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