LTSP/Community

From openSUSE

Being good member of LTSP community is very important for openSUSE LTSP users and developers working on getting best of LTSP world to openSUSE distribution.

Here is what we as a downstream to LTSP project are doing that helps grow our community:

• Bring LTSP to one of the top three Linux distributions
• Package LTSP, create rpm packages making them available on mirrors all over the world
• Packages are kept up-to-date
• Create distribution that has LTSP integrated, perhaps the only live distribution to include the very latest LTSP, the LTSP server runs out of the box
• Make it easy for users to get access to complex LTSP technology
• Write documentation and wiki pages
• Created Easy-LTSP distro independent easy to use graphical lts.conf editor as a part of openSUSE Google Summer of Code 2008 project.
• Were instrumental in getting xrdp support in LDM, part of Nomad project(now dead)
• openSUSE community members give many talks, lectures, workshops making people aware of this great project and benefits of using LTSP in schools and businesses
• Making use of the cutting edge technology of openSUSE distribution for LTSP such as KIWI, AoE, clicfs etc
• Some of the community members (The_Code, cyberorg, japerry, shrek) are available on Freenode #ltsp channel in case anyone wants help
• We bring in new way of doing things, sometime that may not go down well with up stream devs but unless we explore new paths we may never know what is the better direction for the project
• Write documentation for getting LTSP extremely easily on non-supported distribution [[LTSP/Other_Distros| getting LTSP on other distribution]
• Bring whole new flavor of LTSP to the table - KIWI-LTSP
• All the modifications to LTSP is sent to ltsp-developers mailing list
• Work with upstream developers to sort any issue that relates to LTSP or affects openSUSE distribution

The question to ask is not what openSUSE is doing for LTSP, but why there are no other distribution as actively participating in LTSP project as us, only Ubuntu, Debian are leading most of the core development. Fedora participation is becoming increasingly less.

Why is LTSP still so complex that Gentoo developers are finding it difficult to get it working even after spending more than a year, Fedora dev(paid Redhat staff) took almost a year to get it working on Fedora and no other distribution is even interested to attempt porting or give up after trying unsuccessfully.