[mythtv-users] Diskless LTSP Frontend

[Raymond Wagner]

On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:51, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> On 28/12/2013 01:58, Craig Cook wrote:
>> I have just posted this page:
>> 
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Diskless_LTSP_Frontend
>> 
>> This is the result of 4 days effort.
>> 
>> Feedback welcome (good or bad;)
>> 
>> I am happy to provide more detail on the wiki page, I am not sure what
>> is needed though.
> 
> I've just posted an alternative approach here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Diskless_Frontend_%28automated_creation%29, using the Kiwi
> image creation system. It's swings and roundabouts really: one advantage
> of Kiwi is the creation of the image is completely automated, based
> on a recipe, so there is no need to perform manual installation
> steps and configuration within a chroot.
> The kiwi command does it all for you. Also the result has no
> throwbacks to LTSP's thinclient roots, which isn't really natural
> for mythfrontend (the X server clearly needing to run on the client
> rather than the server).

The X server always runs on the client.  It's the client applications that also must run on the client.  On a traditional thin client, the applications run on the server.