Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (60 mails)

[Richard Bos <ml@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Op Tuesday 15 July 2008 06:18:41 schreef CyberOrg:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Jpd <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One problem I see is that how do you manage a room full of suse boxes?
> >
> > Users management are pretty sorted through AD support.
> >
> > Patching through auto update seemed ok.
> >
> > But how do you install software to rooms of pcs with out login into each
> > one?
> >
> > How do you do things like group polices for access to applications?
> >
> > Things like managing the start menu etc.
> >
> > For mac there the xserver which does all this, and for windows you can
> > get apps.
> >
> > What is there for Linux?
>
> Use KIWI-LTSP, you will have to manage just one server, applications
> installed on the server would show up on every client.

Isn't this depending on the need for applications that need audio and video? 
But indeed kiwi-ltsp is an excellent platform to do all the things requested 
above.

How well does kiwi-ltsp perform with audio and video applications?  Is it 
already possible to run such applications for example locally on the client?

> See this for profile lockdowns
> http://opseast.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/sledgnome-desktop-lockdown/

For kde there is kiosk.

-- 
Richard Bos
Without a home the journey is endless
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