Re: [K12OSN] Introduction and questions]

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

Hi Mike!

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Mike Ely wrote:
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> Incidentally, has anyone on this list heard of any effort to "port" K12OS etc. 
> to other distros?  I'd love nothing more than to build a SuSE 10 box and go 
> "rpm -ivh K12ltspserver.4.4.1-suse10.i386.rpm."  Maybe if I get time later in 
> the year...

I've been working on making LTSP/K12LTSP portable to other distros for some
time now.

Here is the basic idea:

	http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/MueKow

and here is the first implementation:

	http://www.edubuntu.org/

Debian now has a port of the Ubuntu packages.

I intend to do a Fedora/RedHat port in my free-time. [of which I have none]

I chatted with Nat Friedman from Novell yesterday, but didn't get a chance
to corner him about adding LTSP support into SUSE ;-)

-Eric