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Re: [opensuse-edu] weekly
  • From: Jigish Gohil <cyberorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:58:47 +0530
  • Message-id: <b317ae5c0901232228k34409debw819cd3a3c350332c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Andrea Florio <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James Tremblay aka SLEducator ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
I thought I would send out a message to see what's new. so what's new?
jt


from my side i'm working on Education:Salome:Factory repository to
provide Salome with all modules needed... me and lars are going to
FOSDEM an we'll have a talk about openSUSE-education

don't know about other news...

From kiwi-ltsp project, we are working on getting sound and local
device redirection available when using Nomad[1], we are almost done
and have submitted patch to ltsp upstream for inclusion.

Below is the mail explaining what we have worked on.

Ciao

-J

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Please find attached the patch for the support for Nomad[1] in LDM.

The patch adds support for login using rdesktop to Linux RDP server
(xrdp[2]). Shortcomings of xrdp server is that it does not support
local disks or sound redirection, we are using ssh socket tunnel
created by LDM to use local disks via LTSPFS. This patch solves both
the issues :)

Few of the big advantages of using xrdp server is more efficient
connection than NX and X over ssh, more secure than XDMCP. It also
provides session persistence so users can disconnect and resume where
they left off on reconnect. Nomad also supports compiz desktop
effects, a modified version of compiz is available on openSUSE 11.1 or
compiz-nomad branch here[3], this version takes advantage of the local
hardware to do all compositing and window management.

To use Nomad, xrdp is required to be installed and running on the
server and rdesktop inside the client image. Add the following
variable in lts.conf:

LDM_NOMAD = True

The above will create ssh socket normally to use with LTSPFS and then
launch rdesktop.

The patch is combined work of Akash, Jinita, Kshitij, Priyanka guided
by me and inputs from Gadi and Ogra.

Do let us know if we can improve it further or add any more features.

Ciao

Jigish
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CyberOrg

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Nomad
[2] http://xrdp.sourceforge.net
[3]
http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=compiz;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nomad-0.7.8
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