[K12OSN] Yellow Dog, Was: Roadmap vs FAQ?

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

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:

>Very true.  Imagine a PMac G5 loaded with DRAM and YDL "Terminal Server 
>Edition".  Terra Soft has already expressed an interest in such work if 
>someone (like me, for instance) is willing to get it going.  

I noted @yellowdog addresses on the list roster.

The only gotcha I see with the new G5s is that they ship with IDE drives.
That can be a nasty performance bottleneck. I guess /home could always
be NFS mounted over to a box with fast drives. We do this to knock-down
the price of some of our Intel-based servers.


>Perhaps we 
>can get them to consider including it as one of their built-in types of 
>installations, say, for a "YDL 3.1.0", just like we currently do w/ 
>K12LTSP.  That's my goal.

I have it running on my YDL 3.0 powered TiBook. Almost all of the
LTSP-specific packages can be copied from K12LTSP 4.0.0 and installed
on YDL as-is (they are noarch packages). The main work would be the
server-specific packages, such as sound.

I would bet that my anaconda patches would apply cleanly as well.

So much hacking, so little time ;-)

-Eric