LTSP improvements for quantal
General discussion on improving LTSP's integration in Ubuntu and our overall thin client experience.
Ideas that have been mentioned and should be discussed:
- How to deal with chroot upgrades (currently not supported)
- Making maintenance easier
- Split ltsp-live out of the main ltsp package
- Rebase on Debian's packaging for ltsp itself (only package we don't simply sync at the moment)
- Generating a .img image from an LTSP chroot that can be used to make a standalone thin client image
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Steve Langasek
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Stéphane Graber
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Stéphane Graber
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for quantal
- Implementation:
- Not started
- Milestone target:
- ubuntu-12.10-beta-1
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
General discussion on improving LTSP's integration in Ubuntu and our overall thin client experience.
Ideas that have been mentioned and should be discussed:
- How to deal with chroot upgrades (currently not supported)
- Making maintenance easier
- Split ltsp-live out of the main ltsp package
- Rebase on Debian's packaging for ltsp itself (only package we don't simply sync at the moment)
- Generating a .img image from an LTSP chroot that can be used to make a standalone thin client image
Stéphane, please fill out the below section with an explanation of this feature that would be appropriate to include in the Ubuntu release notes.
Release Notes:
Work Items
Work items:
[ogra] Add support for .img building into ltsp-build-client (code at http://
[stgraber] Add support for ARM into LTSP upstream (generating the missing glue to allow ARM booting): DONE
[stgraber] Investigate enabling recommends by default in ltsp-build-client (done upstream): DONE
[stgraber] investigate zram or whatever the flavour of the year ram cache thingy is (bug 1031482): DONE
[jonathan] update LDM themes to new Ubuntu themes: POSTPONED
[alkisg] Ensure that all our LTSP hooks have been moved to ltsp-live so that upgrading the chroot works: POSTPONED
[jonathan] add a preseed option so that ltsp-build-client can be called with --fat-client in d-i: DONE