Hello Community

I am happy to announce another development release of KIWI-LTSP.

With this release we also got a bugzilla tracker, so make the best use of it

http://devzilla.novell.com/kiwi-ltsp/

You can now also send us your bug reports, enhancement requests,
patches etc via that, apart from IRC #ltsp or #kiwi, and these mailing
lists.

Click here to install kiwi-ltsp :

Follow the instructions here once the installation completes:
http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP

Changes from the last release:

- Synced ldm with the latest gutsy-ltsp code
- Auto mount when login in and unmount during log off fixed
- Sound works out of box

Known Issues:

- If the local device has NTFS partition, hit CTRL+C when it is being
mounted to continue, will add ntfs support later.
- Some hardware may face X configuration issue, screen will go blank
and stay blank, hit CTRL+C to continue.

Have a lot of fun!

A dedicated teams of translators have been steadily getting all the compiz tools translated in their languages, recently Portuguese became the first team to complete 100% translation.

Here is the graphical presentation of top 30 languages(Click image to see full list).

If you are interested in contributing have a look at this page and join/start your own language team, you wouldn’t want your language below top 30 now, would you?

On another front, it was great to see KIWI-LTSP on the openSUSE news. I also announced release of another milestone which included 1-click install, auto mounting of local disks, auto sound configuration and many other small improvements. I am sure deploying of LTSP5 on openSUSE is now as easy as it can get. Testing it on all kinds of client hardware would be very welcome, client can be any old PC that is capable of PXE booting.

There are some bugs though, which I have no idea how to fix, like auto unmount, logout does not return to LDM, stale processes left on the server even when the client is switched off. Hopefully captain_maGNUs would be able to track those down soon

After quietly plugging away trying to get LTSP5 fully running on openSUSE, we have a latest team member join us: Magnus “captain_magnus” Boman. This has given a substantial push to our efforts.

We also put up a wiki for developers with current status and TODO: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/KIWI-LTSP

As can be seen on the status page, we have a working setup ready, and hopefully more work would make it a bit more useful by openSUSE 10.3 release next month.

PS: We are still looking forward to more developers joining us, so if you are interested, look us up on IRC freenode #kiwi.