[Hamara-devel] LTSP+Hamara-Sungam

[Vikas Tara]

On 18/02/15 06:36, Great Avenger Singh wrote:
> After discussion went with Vikas and he suggested to put mail about LTSP:
>
> I had one project in my college about making LTSP cluster for load-balancing.
> It's structure was something like One root server and as many as
> application servers according to the number of thin-clients.
>
> I went through many Linux distributions K12,Open-suse,Edubuntu and
> ended up with Debian Wheezy.
>
> Almost all the distributions support LTSP at some level.
>
> Following is the list of LTSP packages for Ubuntu:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ltsp-cluster&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>
> Edubuntu provides LTSP <server packages> with official image and user
> get the option to include LTSP server while installing. As from the
> name Edubuntu targets mainly for Institutions and LTSP Technology is
> quite good for that.
>
> You can get idea from here:
> http://linuxvar.it/images/c/c5/Architettura_edubuntu.png
>
> Do you think we need to include LTSP with Hamara-Sungam to make in
> more productive in terms of "Plug and play" OS for Indian
> Schools/Colleges?
>
This is a really good suggestion that we are very much interested in - 
and I think we can go further.

What I would like to see is a complete plan / approach to supporting 
educational institutions based on:

- Hamara / LTSP
- LTSP sever specifications per number of users
- Implementation of Raspberrypi2 or similar arm hardware for client side use
- Free support via our forum (can we create a community with knowledge 
sharing between schools?)
- Contract support for those who need / can afford

A few of us have used LTSP over the years and so have a bit of 
experience with it - I think it's a quite workable solution for this 
particular usecase.

Maybe the next step would be to start writing a proposal on the wiki?

You could talk to people at the conference to see if you can find other 
volunteers who would help?

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