Thin Client technology - Linux Terminal Server Project HOWTO

The text below was copied with permission from post by Harry Mangalam, UCI, to UC-CSC Mailing List

I typed up the notes I took as I was evaluating the LTSP for Lab andOfficeand 
Office deloyment, added a few introductory paras and got this:

http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/LTSP_HOWTO.html

Feedback, criticism, corrections, and suggestions how to improve itwelcome.it 
welcome.  If you have additional links that should be added, let meknow.me 
know.

Those at UCI are welcome to visit for a demo until the hardware getsredeployed.gets I'
redeployed. I’ve tested with 64bit PCs netbooting 64 & 32bit OSs, andanand 
an old 32bit PIII laptop netbooting the 32bit OS.

From the introduction:
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There are many technologies tempting your wallet these days withpromiseswith 
promises of secure, easy, efficient, low-cost, scalable desktopcomputing.desktop 
computing. Many of these are based on virtualized Windows, withproprietarywith 
proprietary technology at each layer of the whole solution. (Tom HolubandHolub 
and crew evaluated this Windows-based onion/parfait at Berkeley in2008-in 
2008-2009.)

I say … meh.

Linux and the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)LTSP) have provided thiskindthis 
kind of technology for at least a decade for free. It is being used inlargein 
large rollouts in the 3rd world where the technology cost issue ismostis 
most important and in the 1st world where the human costs are the mainissue.main 
issue. Before you sink $thousand$ trying to stack proprietarytechnologyproprietary 
technology upon proprietary technology, why not see what some freesoftwarefree 
software can provide? If you have the (minimal) hardware, you can haveanhave 
an LTSP system up and running in about 2 hours. No licenses, nosignatures,no 
signatures, no faxes, no crippleware, no POs, no RFPs, no bids, nolawyers.no 
lawyers. And surprisingly few tears.------------


Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Assumptions3. Pre-Requisites3.1. Prep work3.2. Hardware3.3. Software4. Installing the LTSP server4.1. Installing a preconfigured LTSP system4.2. Installing over an pre-installed system5. Creating the client OS6. Server vs Client Applications7. Changing the client BIOS to PXE-boot8. Booting the client9. Upgrading & Changing the client OS10. Adding / upgrading applications11. Adding storage12. Multimedia to LTSP clients13. Shared printers.14. Local storage devices15. Handling Application versions16. Adding LDAP, Kerberos, NIS/NFS17. LTSP coexistence with Windows apps18. Thin Client Promotion, Propaganda, Discussion19. Copyright notice