Once again, the LTSP team has a booth in the .Org pavilion at LinuxWorld. This year, we've got a webcam where you can see almost live pictures of the booth. Click here for the webcam.

I'm happy to announce that Update-2 for LTSP-4.2 is available.

This release contains several minor bug fixes including the updated lbuscd, which fixes the "2nd login" problem for local device access.

In addition, we've created an ISO image of the full set of packages, for those who would like to download a single file.

Take a look at LTSP-4.2 Page for more information.

We've updated some of the packages in LTSP-4.2, to fix a number of small issues. Take a look at the Changelog for more information.

We are VERY happy to announce the availability of the long-awaited LTSP-4.2, complete with awesome support for local block devices, such as cdroms, floppy drives and USB memory sticks. Lots of details can be found on the LTSP Wiki

Computer Using Educators (CUE.org) annual show, on March 9-11, 2006, will have a 48-computer LTSP lab as their main email garden, hosted by TechnologyRescue.com. There will be seven formal presentations on Open Source software in education as well, including one on LTSP by Steve Hargadon.

Steve Hargadon has setup a frapper map for k12ltsp and ltsp sites. Please go to http://www.k12ltsp.com and register your site(s).

Several new interviews have been done, since the "Best Of Show" award was handed to the LTSP project last week at Linux World.

Links to the interviews can be found on the LTSP Wiki Articles page. Here's the link:

http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSPArticles

I'm happy to announce that the Ubuntu guys have made great progress in integrating LTSP into the next release of Ubuntu (Breezy Badger).

We're looking for people to do some testing, so all of you out there who have been anxiously awaiting this, now's your chance.

I've created a wiki page with information for getting started:

http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspBreezyTest

I'll add more info to that page as time goes on.

Please, if you've got a spare machine to test with, give this a try. We really want to shake out all the bugs, before the final release in October.

That's what the award says that we won at Linux World Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

This award is just a testimony to the hard work that the LTSP community has done, to both create a great product, and grow an incredible community of volunteers.

Thank you all, Jim McQuillan

Once again, the LTSP team has a booth in the .Org pavilion at LinuxWorld. This year, we've got a webcam where you can see almost live pictures of the booth. Click here for the webcam.

Meinhard Benn will be giving a talk on LTSP at the Nocturnes Libre Software Meeting in Dijon, France on Monday, July 4th.

Take a look at Nocturnes for more information.

Lots of enhancements and updates of the LTSP-4.1 series are now available. If you are already running LTSP-4.1, you can just run ltspadmin and grab the latest packages.

Take a look at This Announcement for more information.

The yearly Linux & Open Source event held by IDG Romania at the World Trade Center in Bucharest hosted a presentation of the Linux Terminal Server Project. For about an hour Dragos Manac, Lead Operations of System & Network Solutions, explained the LTSP arhitecture and benefits to the audience - techies, business, goverment and press. During the event there was a LTSP workshop with hardware provided by IBM Romania, so everyone got a chance to see how it works and try it out! The impact was great, the audience asked lots of questions and some decided to start test implementations of their own.

The Cutter Project has been set up in the UK to provide commercially supported turnkey desktop systems for education and business users. Existing desktop PCs are used as LTSP clients to applications servers running both Linux and Microsoft Windows, giving coverage of all major applications. A shared filesystem gives users full transparency of data. Cutter focuses on carefully selected packages and hardware options to ensure high availability and radically lowered support and maintenance costs. The systems and support will be sold through distributors as well as directly.

Link to Cutter Project: http://www.cutterproject.co.uk

I can't tell you how good it was to see a classroom of 40 kids all logging in to KDE as if it was the most natural thing in the world. You know intellectually that they are going to do it, but to see it happening .... a great feeling!

--- Mike Banahan

Yes, that's right. We've setup a Wiki for helping gathering and organizing notes and information relating to LTSP.

Take a look at wiki.ltsp.org.

And, PLEASE !, if you have some information you'd like to add to the Wiki, register yourself, and add your info to the site.

I've gotten tons of complaints lately about the problems with downloading the LTSP packages using ltspadmin (the ltsp installer). It turns out that SourceForge has started throttling the connections for large file downloads from their website.

We're working on adding mirroring support to ltspadmin, and this will greatly improve the installation experience. But, until we get this finished, I've created an ISO image of the LTSP packages. You can configure ltspadmin to grab the packages from the ISO image. Click here for instructions.

Andy Trevor sent me a link to an article in The Register, showing a case study of a deployment that he recently finished in a school in the UK. They've been replacing old software with Linux based solutions, and using LTSP to give access to 1,000 users. Great stuff, and you can read all about it here.

Matti Lattu is working on a Kiosk project based on LTSP. The project is called WWW-Kiosk.

James Holland and the homeless charity 'Alone in London' setup a network of 30 LTSP workstations on an extremely low budget. Take a look at this Article for more info.

LTSP is celebrating it's 5th birthday today (Aug 4), and we're excited to announce today, that LTSP-4.1 is now available. Check http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/ltsp-4.1.html for more information.

Jim McQuillan will be at Guadec, in Kristiansand, Norway next week (June 28-30). He'll be giving a talk on Wednesday, June 30th at 11:30am. The title is:

Deploying Linux on the Desktop with LTSP

Wednesday is "User & Business Day" at Guadec, and the organizers have offered to let everybody in free for that day, if they mention that they are "Friends of LTSP". The FREE day is for Wednesday, June 30th only.

The registration page is here.

It's that time of year again.

Linux World is invading the San Francisco area the week of August 2nd. There will be tutorials on Monday the 2nd, and the exhibit area will be open Tuesday through Thursday (Aug 3rd-5th).

As usual, LTSP will have a booth in the .Org pavillion.

This has been an awful lot of fun at previous shows, and I'm sure it'll be good this time too.

If you've got a few hours to kill (or more), we'd definately like to have you help out at the booth.

And, in keeping up with the tradition, we'll have the LTSP Dinner on Wednesday, Aug 4th. This is a chance to relax and have alot of fun with many of the LTSP Developers and Users.

The link to Linux World Conference & Expo - San Francisco is:

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A/

If you want to come and help out at one of the busiest booths in the entire exhibit hall, please send me an email and let me know which day(s) and times you can be there.

Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you all there.

That was the question yesterday on Slashdot. Well, it turns out that Novell is indeed working on a thin client solution, and according to Nat Friedman, it is definately based on LTSP.

Read more about it here.

Jim McQuillan

Jim McQuillan and Andrew Williams were interviewed on the "Call the Computer Guys" show on WFOB (1430am) on Saturday morning, Apr 10.

Click here for more info.

We are keeping the LTSP and LBE source code under CVS control. In fact, we have been for quite a while. I've written up a brief document, describing what is there, and how to get it. The document is here.

Both the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) and the Iowa Recycling Association (IRA) have recently honored Brad Erlewine, a computer specialist at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, for a cutting-edge strategy to recycle computer hardware using LTSP.

Click here for the full press release.

LTSP-4 is now available. It's been a long time coming, and we are finally able to make it available as official packages. Take a look at this document for lots more information on LTSP-4.

We've also coordinated this release with our friends over at k12ltsp. They are releasing K12ltsp-4.0 today as well.

Paul Dravis has written an excellent report titled:

Open Source Software - Perspectives for Development

Paul covers many aspects of the emergence of Linux all over the world.

You can view the document here

At the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston earlier this week, Sam Docknevich from IBM gave a talk titled

Open Source Desktop
Directions for Today... and Tomorrow

Take a look at the slideshow. Especially the 14th slide, where they mention LTSP as one of the technology approaches.

The spanish LUG, Hispalinux is doing some very interesting work with LTSP. They are supporting a mailing list and a wiki in spanish with documentation, articles, a forum and faq's. A growing number of schools and h-schools are having experience with LTSP and lot of teachers are interested in learning how to configure their classrooms, and LTSP will be present at the next VI Congreso Hispalinux

Hispalinux invites all the spanish communities to join and share their experiences.

At LinuxWorld, in San Francisco, the LTSP project has picked up an award for "Best Open Source Project". We'll provide links to the official stories, just as soon as we find them.

Distros supported:

•	Pretty much all of them

Installation Instructions:

     (LTSP-4.2)

     (LTSP-4.1)

     (LTSP-4.0)

     (LTSP-3)

Documentation Page

Download Page

LTSP Coming to a town near you

Porto Alegre, Brazil - April 19-22, 2006

FISL-7.0 - Brazil For the 4th year in a row, Jim McQuillan will be at FISL in Brazil, talking about LTSP. This year, He's bring Scott Balneaves along with him to talk about using Linux and LTSP in government deployments.

Bellingham, WA - April 29, 2006

Linuxfest Northwest 2006 Jim McQuillan and Eric Harrison will both be at this conference giving talk(s) on LTSP and K12LTSP related things.

Yes, that's right, we have LTSP T-Shirts.   No open source project would be complete without T-Shirts to allow you to proudly display your support of the project.   These colorful shirts are available in Large, X-Large and XX-Large.

They are available at DisklessWorkstations.Com.   The good news is they are only $15 each, so order 2 or 3.