We are looking to <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Edubuntu </a>and <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)</a> as a way to reuse old hardware (of which we have a lot!) in 2008. <br><br>I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has had success with this in a real-world, public setting.
<br><br>I'm especially interested in learning how you are locking
Firefox as a kiosk, client/server ratios, server performance over a
WAN, "real life" server requirements, if you are using any sort of
computer reservation/time management software with Linux, patron
reactions, and/or anything else related to this you'd like to share.
<br><br>I have watched Jim Mann's (<span style="font-weight: bold;">oldcomputermann</span>'s) <a href="http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=oldcomputermann&p=r" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
YouTube vids</a>.<br><br>At
a minimum, we'd like to replace our many "catalog-only" PCs with
Edubuntu-based Firefox kiosks in 2008. I have an Edubuntu 7.04 server
up and running and am booting clients to it via PXE. Pretty exciting
stuff, but I'm a "noob" to most of this. Success stories (or
cautionary tales) welcome!<br><br>Thanks,<br clear="all"> <br>Chip Kruthoffer, Head of Systems<br>Lane Public Library ~ <a href="http://www.lanepl.org">http://www.lanepl.org</a><br>1396 University Blvd. (Admin. Center)<br>
Hamilton, Ohio 45011<br>Phone: (513) 785-2706 ~ Fax: (513) 894-6558<br>Email: c <dot> kruthoffer <at> lanepl <dot> org