IRC chat logs for #ltsp on irc.libera.chat (webchat)
Channel log from 3 February 2019 (all times are UTC)
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| 20:46 | <sukhbir> Bidirectional communication with jetpipe
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| 20:47 | <alkisg> Yes it is
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| 20:47 | <sukhbir> Is bi-directional communication now supported by jetpipe?
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| 20:48 | <alkisg> There hasn't been any work on jetpipe for 10 years or more
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| 20:49 | <sukhbir> So bi-directional communication is still not supported?
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| 20:50 | We are still using LTSP 4.2 to communicate with weight scales and signature pads
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| 20:50 | <alkisg> Haha
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| 20:51 | LTSP 4.2 hasn't seen any updates since ...15? years?
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| 20:51 | <sukhbir> We cannot upgrade to LTSP 5 because of jetpipe
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| 20:51 | <alkisg> How so?
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| 20:51 | Can't you use ltsp fat clients?
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| 20:51 | Thin client setups are not recommended nowadays
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| 20:52 | <sukhbir> Really?
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| 20:52 | <alkisg> !fatclient
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| 20:52 | <ltsp> I do not know about 'fatclient', but I do know about these similar topics: 'fatclient-printers', 'fatclients'
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| 20:52 | <alkisg> !fatclients
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| 20:52 | <ltsp> fatclients: Nowadays LTSP supports thin and fat clients. They are both diskless and netbooted from the same LTSP chroot, but while thin clients run the session on the server and transfer the screen, fat clients run the session locally with their own CPU/RAM, thus performing amazingly better. See also !ltsp-pnp and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients
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| 20:52 | <alkisg> !install
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| 20:52 | <ltsp> install: http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Installation/Ubuntu for Ubuntu, or http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Installation for other distributions
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| 20:52 | <alkisg> Read the installation page for modern-style instructions on how to setup and maintain ltsp
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| 20:53 | There's a p10nd something package in debian, can be used to replace jetpipe, but people don't use thin clients anymore, so noone cares much about it
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| 21:12 | !p910nd
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| 21:12 | <ltsp> Error: "p910nd" is not a valid command.
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| 21:13 | <alkisg> http://p910nd.sourceforge.net/
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| 21:19 | <sukhbir> thanks.
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| 21:19 | I'll check p910nd out. I prefer to stick with thin clients for POS workstations.
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| 21:41 | <alkisg> Why?
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| 21:41 | I don't think p910nd supports bidirectional communication either
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| 21:41 | I don't think it's part of the protocol
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| 21:42 | Also note that the next version of ltsp will probably not support thin clients at all; except for the various programs like x2go, xfreerdp, which offer a remote desktop on top of a "fat client" session
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| 21:43 | Any client with > $50 nowadays (e.g. raspberries, tv boxes) works better as fat than thin
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| 21:43 | !cheap-client
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| 21:43 | <ltsp> cheap-client: https://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-c_11262/?attr=2081-1279
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| 21:44 | <alkisg> And they need a lot less bandwidth, so you can serve e.g. 100 pos systems with a single, low cpu, low ram server
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| 21:45 | In any case, if you are certain you prefer thin clients and need normal printing, just install cups and share the printer from there
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