LTSP vs. Diskless Node

Ravilj · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:42 am Post subject: LTSP vs. Diskless Node

I am wondering what the difference is between using LTSP and Diskless Nodes is for creating a thin client network.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml#doc_chap3

What would be the advantage of using LTSP. From what I have read (bearing in mind it is 3:41am

) the seem to offer the same thing.

kucrut · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 38

AFAIK, LTSP client use server's resources to run apps, while diskless node client use its own. That way, ltsp client can run apps built for another arch.
In fact, i'm currently running LTSP on AthlonXP 2600+/768MB as server and PII 300MHz/160MB as client, and the server is built from Bob P's stage 1/3 method with Athlon-XP's sfecific flags.
I'm interested in MueKow idea, and i'm still searching for help to build it under gentoo.

-- Sorry for my english