"Distributed development makes open source tick, but sometimes
you just have to get people together in a room--which is what the
Linux Terminal Server Project did last weekend. Members of the
project, and developers for several distributions, gathered in
Clarkston, Michigan last weekend to plot the future of LTSP--and it
looks good.
"LTSP has been around since 1999, when Jim McQuillan and Ron
Colcernian decided to solve a customer need at a home health care
supply company. LTSP allows you to run Linux on a server, and then
use thin clients (almost any computer will do) to connect to the
server and receive a full-blown Linux desktop. Since then, millions
of Linux desktops have been deployed around the world using
LTSP..."