MikeSeth

It appears work-from-home employees often use virtual backgrounds for their conference calls. Same is probably true for all sorts of Youtube Twitch streamers and so on, who'd use some sort of technology to replace their actual background with some sort of image or a video clip.

Now consider a computer game or other software that is capable of producing fully procedurally generated images or videos; for instance this random screenshot from Elite: Dangerous. This view and all of its parts, while it appears in the game, was not produced by a human, but by an al

I've had several users complain that after the latest update, when they try to send an email, during the "Assembling message" phase a dialog pops up saying that "Sending of the message failed". No attempt to connect to the SMTP server is made. To fix it, find the location of your temporary folder (typically AppData\Local\Tmp), close thunderbird and delete everything in it.

TL;DR it's a complete rewrite of LTSP 5 as a set of rather pretty shell scripts to configure a host LTSP server and machine images with minimal effort. Workstations are (can be) diskless and boot from a network image; authentication is done by the server and home directories are kept on it (via sshfs). By default, the boot image is a clone of the server, but custom images can be created. There's currently no thin client support implemented.

New version website: https://ltsp.github.io/