Announcing Custard - Sabayon alternative

[Joshua Higgins]

Hello edubuntu list

I've been working on a project for our school called Custard, basically
because currently Sabayon just doesn't work as it should. It performs the
same function, and allows you to edit the profiles graphically in an Xnest.

Its currently being used in a production environment, so should be fairly
stable. It requires the Gambas2 runtime, GTK and Xnest. The way it works
underneath is very different to Sabayon - Custard effectively maintains
multiple skeletal directories that work in a similar way to /etc/skel, but
can be applied at any time, not just a account creation, as is the case with
using /etc/skel. Custard creates a unix account for each profile, however
they are created without passwords and disabled, so they cannot be logged
into from the login screen and only through the xnest.

I've set up a sourceforge project page and uploaded some documentation to
get going. If anyone would be willing to test it I'd be very grateful. A
.deb file is available for Jaunty (should work on Karmic too). Source will
be uploaded if required.

http://http://custard.sourceforge.net/

The sourceforge page also contains some screenshots.

Regards,
Joshua Higgins.
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