RE: [Sheflug] LTSP / KDE

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> >Next question. Bearing in mind I don't want my shop floor 
> users to play
> >about with multitudes of settings and 'toys', what's the 
> recommendation
> >for the window manager? I've also got xfce3 on the box but it's
> >currently set up to use fvwm. If I stick with the latter, where's the
> >panel configuration stored? I've had a dig in /etc/opt/gnome but
> >couldn't see anything obvious. I want to be able to give the 
> users just
> >what they need and nowt else.
> 
> We ended up using Icewm, can be locked down, and has a rather 
> nice winxp
> theme
> that makes it look like any other PC.

Thanks for everyone's contributions. I've ended up settling with the
Gnome desktop. We're using SuSE9.0 on the server. When I switched over
to using gdm, the remote terminals packed up due to lack of display
manager (sure enough, nothing listening on UDP 177 on the server). I
made the switch using YAST2's sysconfig editor which did warn me that
there was no remote access using gdm... I chose to ignore it. I've now
switched back to using kdm and the terminals are working fine.

I spent some time last night removing all the toys from the shop floor
login using nautilus and applications:///

I've got some stuff printed out from gnome.org/learn (thanks, Seb) about
locking down the configurations to make them read only which I'll be
having a play about with later today, but it's looking good.

The only thing I can see us having to do is provide more than one server
on the network. There does seem to be a lot of network traffic, possibly
because we're using diskless terminals so there's no local swap. I don't
want to kill my LAN links, so display manager / server systems scattered
around with one central machine running the DHCP and boot stuff would
appear to be feasible. Having said that, I'm not 100% certain if the swp
would ocntinue to live on the boot server. I'll have to go back to the
LTSP docs to see whether I can have the boot happening on something
other than the DHCP server... I think not.

Seb: If I said that we were likely only to be using Mozilla for browsing
and some Java apps and applets, what would your views on RAM in the
server be? We look like supporting around 8-10 clients from a single
server with 1GB of PC3200 RAM on a dual-channel MB (Athlon 2800XP), so
it's quite nippy. 

Thanks,

-- 
David
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