At work, we have a Edubuntu Feisty 7.04 server that serves 2-3 thin clients. It also acts as a print and file server.

Setting it up was a piece of cake, I just upgraded it first, installed some additional apps like Thunderbird and then did the following:

Update and upgrade the server:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Remove the old thin client server enivorment:

sudo rm -r /opt/ltsp/i386

Build a new one:

sudo ltsp-build-client

Start the DHCP server, (won’t work without this):

sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

And it was up and running. Then I made some users I made boot floppies from Rom-o-matic, and booted the thin clients and logged in.

That’s all there’s to it. The only problems I’ve encountered so far are related to printing, with it causing the server to stall at times, but as that mean old printer is 12 years old, I’ll have to forgive it.

Here is a nice review of Edubuntu by Carla Schroder.

Next time, I plan to post on how to set up a decent backup plan with rsync or tar.