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Issue 86

From Issue #86
June 2001

Jun 01, 2001  By Jorge Eduardo Lema
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Reduce costs and improve productivity with easy-to-install diskless workstations.
Conclusion

Some important features elevate the stature of this open-source project: its up-to-date documentation, which guides the user through the entire installation; configuration and troubleshooting process; the project's contributions area where people have added their own enhancements to the software, including support for things such as LDAP and dynamic DNS; and its very active mailing list, where most of the questions are swiftly answered by the developers themselves.

The LTSP is now part of SourceForge—good news for users and developers alike. Many new contributions and enhancements to the software are sure to come in the near future, making LTSP the tool of choice for many diskless workstation networks in Latin America and the rest of the world. The recent appearance of a Red Hat-based distribution by the K12 Project (www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/k12ltsp.html) includes software from the LTSP. That the K12 Project is aimed mainly at schools and children is proof of the great advancement and significance of the LTSP.

The project's documentation has been translated into Spanish but not yet to other languages. We hope that the LTSP's affiliation with SourceForge means many eager translators from different countries will soon start contributing their work.

Since my first experience with the LTSP, I have had the chance to implement its diskless workstations solution in several environments, including public schools, internet cafés and small companies. To our satisfaction, all of those networks are working smoothly today and most of the users have benefited from the new technology. Maybe this is what the Open Source movement is all about: helping people help themselves.

I'd like to thank Jim McQuillan (jam@McQuil.com) and his friends for their outstanding contribution to the Open Source movement, the development and maintenance of the Linux Terminal Server Project.

Jorge Eduardo Nieto Lema is a 32-year-old Colombian who works as an independent Linux consultant. He is currently working on a port of the LTSP's software to his favorite Linux distribution: the great Slackware. He can be reached at jnieto@yupimail.com.

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an inspriring article

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Submitted by vinod kumar (not verified) on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 21:46.

An excellent article which has helped to set a similar environment , making use of redundant machines, to help a small school.
cheers

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/12/2004 - 03:00.

The last day Jorge told me about your article...
I read the article and thinks is excellent.
Congratulation!!

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/28/2002 - 03:00.

I've started to investigate the LTSP, and I'm very impressed with it.

I work in corporate IT, but do volunteer work setting up IT infrastructure for community organisations. I often have access to older PC's - now I've got a(nother) use for them - setting up diskless workstations for these community organisations.

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