[K12ltsp-list] Re: K12LTSP: Moving ltsroot out of /tftpboot

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jim McQuillan wrote:

>I want to move the location of the ltsroot directory.
>I've been talking on and off about this for many months now,
>and it's finally time to do it, before the next release of ltsp.
>
>Currently, it exists in /tftpboot/lts, and I just really think
>that is not the correct place for it.

/tftpboot/ is the traditional place for all things booting via TFP.
On the other hand, anyone using a system so old or obscure that it
is difficult to change that should have no problems moving the LTSP ;-)

>Here are some of the suggestions:
>
>  /var/lts

Falls in line with Red Hat's /var/www & /var/ftp, for better or worse.

>  /var/opt/lts
>  /var/local/lts
>  /var/lib
>  /var/lib/lts

/var seems like an odd place for something as static as the LTSP.

>  /usr/lib
>  /usr/lib/lts

LTSP is not a library as well.

>  /data
>  /export
>  /public
>  /srv
>  /sys

adding directories off of the root feels odd as well.

Perhaps /usr/share/...  would be more natural?

>A few people on the FHS mailing list told me that there was work
>towards putting things like the files that Apache serves into
>"/srv/www" or "/srv/http".

<grumble, grumble> I guess I could live with that as long as other
such services were moved there and everyone promised to never move
the apache or ftp root again ;-)  <yes I'm lazy!>

>So, any comments?
>
>If so, please send them to me pronto.  I'd like to put a 2.09pre2
>package together really soon, so people can test the directory move,
>and other new features like:
>
>     Kernels with NFS swap built-in
>     2.4 kernels
      ^^^^^^^^^^^

In my experience, "legacy free" terminals work much, much better with a
2.4 kernel.

>     devfs
>     XFree86-4
      ^^^^^^^^^

Has anyone tried playing hardware-accelerated games on a terminal? This
seems like an interesting possiblity ;-)

I can verify that Tux Racer and Chromium do no play well on an unaccelerated
terminal.

>     Better support for Local apps
>
>I'd like to get the 2.09-final out before Linux World at the end of
>this month.

See you at LW, the first round of beers will be on me Jim. Thanks again for
all of your great work!

-Eric