[K12OSN] Thoughts on K12LTSP fading into the sunset

[Gavin Spurgeon]

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On 10/12/10 01:00, Peter Scheie wrote:
> I think Warren is still working for Red Hat, but is busy with other
> things. Even so, his focus was never K12LTSP per se, but rather getting
> LTSP 5 to work on RH systems, which he did with Fedora.  Getting LTSP 5
> to work on Centos 5 was difficult if not impossible because Centos 5
> just doesn't have all of the necessary pieces built in.

Warren no longer works for Red Hat.

> Gavin, who also works for RH I believe, is trying to pick up where
> Warren left off.

I have indeed been working on trying to pick things up. I managed to get
LTSP working in F13 and published the .rpm's as well.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598134

The big issue now is the Major changes in F14 are causing some issues
trying to get LTSP working @ all. I am still working on this and have a
friend who is also trying to help, But we are both also swamped with
workloads that seem never ending.

I aim is to have my .rpm's in the Official F13 Repos very early next
year. and then work on seeing *if* LTSP will ever work on F14/RHEL6/CentOS6.

We do have some Bugzilla's open for the work. So as soon as things calm
down here @ work, I will get strait back on the LTSP Train.

> (It would be nice if RH could offer official, paid support for LTSP
> on RHEL 6, although I realize the business case may just not be
> there.)

This is a sad truth @ the moment...

> Centos 6 will be along soon, although I don't think
> anyone should be thinking they'll be able to switch to LTSP 5 on Centos
> 6 over the Christmas break; it just won't be ready.  I think planning to
> make a switch next summer is a more realistic timetable.

With the issues in RHEL 6.0 I 110% agree with Peter here, I would also
hold off a little while until the silly little issues have been worked
out with RHEL 6.0 and 6.1 is released.

> Peter
> 
> Barry Cisna wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Just curious on what people's thoughts are of what appears to be K12LTSP
>> distro fading into the sunset?. Kid of hate to see the ball dropped.
>> Maybe I am missing something?...
>> What ever became of Warren Tagaomi,that was to carry on
>> k12ltsp,anyway?..


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