[X2Go-User] Minimal distro with login manager

[Stefan Baur]

Am 08.07.2014 12:14, schrieb Jos:
> Am 21.02.2014 18:52, schrieb Jos:
> Hi all,  Althoug this topic is some months old, I realy would like to
> ask Stephan
> if he could elaborate some more on the >>self updating setup in the
> background<< from his minimal distro.
> Is it perhaps similar as the concept used by CoreOS as mentioned under
> Technical Details on their page,http://coreos.com/using-coreos/updates/


>> Me, I'm using a minimal distro that can either run as a static image
>> from CD/USB or as a self-updating (it queries the server for a newer
>> release, downloads it in the background if there is one, then switches
>> the next reboot to the downloaded copy) image on writable media.

CoreOS sounds pretty similar to my concept, yeah.

Only that I'm using a "classic" Debian Wheezy live image.
I'm not using Chef, Puppet or etcd as it is one standard image for all
machines - since we're talking about Thin Clients here.

In my setup, there's a background job that triggers after a random timer
has expired (so that the clients don't hit the server at the same time).
That background job can pull the image via wget or rsync, which allows
you to limit the used bandwidth, so you don't slow down the user working
on the client too much.

Once the download is complete, the boot manager entry is changed so that
it will boot the other partition at the next reboot.

-Stefan