Announcing Custard - Sabayon alternative

[Howard Kiyuna]

Hey guys,

I lurk on this group (more like I get the emails and delete them).  I am a
teach and I do not program.

I recently bought the HP mini's with "mi" on it.  The command line is gone
(not that I would know how to use it...)  and I tried to add software and
most of the tabs such as "education" are blank.

HP says that's the way it is.  I have access the the Touchsmart design team
but I didn't want to bother them with this one.

Can I add the edubuntu software without doing a full install of edubuntu.
If I can keep "mi" I would like to for now.


Thanks in advance,
Howard Kiyuna
Hope Technology School
Palo Alto, Ca
www.hopetech.org
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Higgins
<joshiggins at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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