Ubuntu Kiosk?

[Charles Yao]

On 5/11/06, email.listen at googlemail.com <email.listen at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am Wed, 10. May 2006 20:36 schrieb Daniel Carrera:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A local school is interested in trying out Linux. I will setup a room
> > with thin clients running from an Edubuntu server. I just have one
> > concern: Last year I did this with another school. I setup a single user
> > account which all the students shared. This worked alright except for
> > OpenOffice. If two students started OpenOffice the second one would see
> > an error saying that OOo was running. I never found a solution for this.
> >
> > I'd like to setup something Kiosk-style. I don't want to hand out 600
> > user names and passwords. I have no idea how to setup a thin client
> > Kiosk. Any suggestions? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> KDE kiosktool is what you are looking for.
>
> kiosktool
> Description: tool to configure the KDE kiosk framework
> A Point&Click tool for system administrators to enable
> KDE's KIOSK features or otherwise preconfigure KDE for
> groups of users.
>
> E.g. it is used by cosmopod.com to restrict the user desktop for their
> nomachine accounts.
>
> For a single classromm and not more than 20 pupils systems like
> skolelinux,
> RedHat K12 or edubuntu will cope your needs. I would recomend skolelinux
> or
> K12 because they offer a lot of 'automagically' predefined services as
> user
> accounts stored in ldap, centralised administration and others.
>
> But for a more complex environment, eg. several classrooms and a lot of
> users
> you will see that they lack a lot of performance. This mostly because of
> network limitations (not more than one subnet) and because of the use of
> LTSP
> which has a bigger bandwith footprint than nomachine/NX.
>
> For such environment I would suggest a better scaling systems e.g.
> OpenSchool
> Server (OSS) [1] from EXTIS (OSS is the former SUSE OSS).
> OSS offers a lot of predefined services, those offered by skolelinux, k12
> plus
> groupware, elearning environment and others.
>
> It don't offer a preconfigured LTSP. But I don't see this as a
> disadvantage,
> IMHO it's more an advantqage...
>
> I set up such a system with an nomachine service (wich is easy to set up)
> As
> thin-client systems I used thinstation [2]. Thinstation is a linux based
> terminal client system which allows connections to nomachine, Cisco
> Terminal
> Services,  MS Terminal Server and a lot others. So it is much more
> flexible
> than having LTSP only.
>
> This system is serving a big vocational school /Berufsschule, BBS-II), 24
> classrooms having 12 to 24 machines each. And it is serving more than 2500
> user accounts in the moment. Every student has a personalized home
> directory,
> is able to use email, irc, web,... The system and all of its services can
> be
> used from inside the school and from outside the school, e.g. at home.
>
> Plus a big set of squidgard rules for web access, which is a legal must
> here
> in germany to protect pupils.
>
> Not to forget the use of kiosktool to configure/restrict the users
> desktop.
> The desktop predefinition/restriction is group based so that there is a
> better
> flexibility in giving more functionality over the years.
>
>
> regards,
> thomas
>
> [1] http://www.openschoolserver.net/
> [2] http://www.thinstation.org/
>
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Is it possible to run LTSP if the Kiosks were wireless?

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