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Check out KDE Kiosk (my preference) if you
are using KDE, or Sabayon if you are using Gnome. They aren’t perfect,
but with some tinkering you can get the desktop environment you want for each
group. We use DansGuardian for content filtering. David Heinzerling The From: Roj Jer
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Words from yet another newbie... please be patient. Career Microsoft folks (like myself) wanting to move from the
Microsoft community to the Open Source Linux community face enormous challenges
when first arriving in the neighborhood. We don't understand the
"lingo" or even where to go to find anything that looks vaguely
familiar. I have been recruited to help design and implement a computer
lab for a neighborhood private school (K-12). The largest factor was $$COST$$.
They have a big need and a small budget. They've received a donation of 30+
100Mhz Pentium PC's with 64Mb Ram, 1GB Hard Disk, and 10/100 Nics.
The cost of implementing new "Dell's" was around $15,000... (way
over budget). What is the budget? The least expensive method possible. So, my
research has begun. I thought about Citrix on a Microsoft Server, but there
were all of the licensing $$COST$$. So, I considered researching Open Source
solutions. I got super pumped when I Googled "Open Source Linux Terminal
Server" and the 2nd item was titled, "K12 Linux in Schools
Project". I read all of the "Testimonials" and "Case
Studies" and determined that this was a perfect match. I downloaded the K12LTSP 4.4.1 - Install CD-ROMs and
commenced to installing it on a donated 1.4GHz AMD PC with 4GB of RAM. I
emulated an Ethernet bootrom on the client PC's by booting from a floppy
disk created from the http://www.Rom-O-Matic.net
site. Within an hour after having the LTSP server online, I had 3 of the 100MHz
Pentium PC's connected and working. Super! Great! But that seems to be where the Magic ends. And now the point! In the Windows world it is easy to configure the
"All Users" Start Menu (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start
Menu), or customize a Start Menu for a particular user. You can customize the
Default User environment (local machine) as a template for subsequent new
users. When incorporating Citrix into the Mix, you can install
software on the Citrix server and "Publish" the application for a
particular user or group. My questions: 1) How / Where do you configure LTSP to segregate
"Teachers" from "Students", "3rd Grade" from
"12th Grade", so that each "group" gets the appropriate
desktop and program menu respective to their roles in the school? A 3rd Grader
does not need the same applications, shortcuts, etc as a 12th Grader. 2) What are other schools using for URL filtering and
Surf Control to keep students from "stumbling" across Porn Sites or
any other topic deemed "inappropriate"? Thanks for your patience. RJ |
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