HanoiLUG

LTSP stands for the Linux Terminal Server project. It is a technology which ables several users to work on a same computer (the LTSP server) through connected terminal clients (the LTSP network). Similar technologies (requesting special equipment hardware) exist in the Windows environment, but LTSP under GNU/Linux makes it very cost effective as no special hardware is necessary other than ordinary network components.

After nearly one year of an experimental LTSP deployment, involving one Core 2 Quad (4 GB RAM) server installed with Ubuntu 8.04 serving up to 16 terminal clients, the Campus numérique francophone of Hanoi is launching its first hands-on LTSP short training course (in Vietnamese) on saturday 18th April 2009 (see details in Vietnamese here).

This first course of 3.5 hours should be sufficient for providing GNU/Linux users the ease of installing themselves a small LTSP network for their own purpose afterwards.

The LTSP technology, associated with Ubuntu, makes it an user-friendly experience, even for GNU/Linux beginners (not complete beginners though, but who are at ease with using computers), allowing them to recycle old computers for e.g. building up an internet-connected network in small libraries, associations, at home, etc.

We worked again on the Intel donated server last saturday. In fact we didn’t work that much but we got the following working :

- Traffic shaping with wondershaper, well it’s ain’t big success so far we have to get better control over what we can do with it.
- The script that will enable rsync and wget to download repositories of Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian

And we ate pizza too..

The hanoilug.org server has been upgraded to PHP 5 since PHP 4 won’t be supported anymore in the next stable Debian release.

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Some hanoilug members gathered last Saturday to work on the Server Donated by intel. This server is supposed to become an official mirror for linux repositories for vietnam.

For now it is called “virror” (vietnam Mirror)

We have the base install, some virtual servers, the basic internal networking, the next step is finish the syncing, do the traffic shaping then the put the box at Netnam, who is kindly donating the bandwidth and the place to host it

For the record the machine spec are :

• 2*Quad-core Intel Xeon Processor E5335 (2*4MB L2, 2.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
• MB Intel S5000VSA4DIMM
• 5*250GB SATA
• 2*1GB FBDIMM DDR2 533MHz ECC