Customizing Ubuntu

[Matthew S-H]

There could be a "meta" package (like ubuntu-base) in Synaptic.  It 
could depend on all the packages required for a default-ish kiosk, and 
conflict with all packages that are not needed.  This would make it 
easy for any business user to get to a default kiosk install.  He or 
she could then modify it or customize it as neccessary (by removing 
"kiosk-base" and installing any packages he or she might want).

Alternatively, it might be nice to have a "barebones-base" type of 
package that simply removed all of the fancy extras in Ubuntu (but it 
would leave Gnome).  This way, users with fast computers (enough for 
Gnome) could install Ubuntu with little disk space.


~Matt


On Apr 7, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>> Just an idea.  It would be nice to compile a list of features that
>> would need to be disabled to enable a "kiosk" mode.  Maybe in the
>> future (Hoary + 1), there could be an option to enable a "kiosk" mode
>> for a specific set of users.  This might attract a lot of niche
>> businesses/users that might not want to deal with the current (and
>> rather expensive) alternatives in the Windows world.  For example, my
>> younger sister can somehow mess up ANY computer (I don't get it at
>> ALL), and it might help to make a kiosk account for her.
>>
>> Again, just an idea I'm throwing out.  Either way, I think Ubuntu is
>> awesome!  Certainly better than Windows, and possibly better than
>> Macs.
>>
>>
>> ~Matt
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> Not sure of the best way to implement this in practice, but the basic
> idea sounds great to me :-)
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