[unclug] there's penguins in the Union
John W. Sopko Jr.
sopko at cs.unc.edu
Fri Feb 13 13:27:57 EST 2004
Nice! I went over to the Union and checked it out, the systems are very
responsive. I hope you do not mind I did a ctrl-alt-backspace to reset X
and convince myself they were running Xfree86. They reset fast with no
problems.
How many have you deployed?
Brian Payst wrote:
> They seem to have survived the first couple of days of student onslaught
> so I thought I'd spread the word. The new Internet kiosks in the
> renovated Union may look like typical Dell Windows machines, but they
> are actually Linux Terminal Server Project (www.ltsp.org) clients
> booting from the network and loading a scaled-down icewm window manager
> and a locked-down Mozilla Firebird. The Windows infected hard drives are
> disabled in the BIOS and will probably eventually be removed.
>
> Just thought the Linux inclined on campus would like to know. If anyone
> wants more information on any parts of that set-up, feel free to ask and
> I'll do my best to sound coherent.
>
> Brian
>
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John W. Sopko Jr. University of North Carolina
email: sopko AT cs.unc.edu Computer Science Dept., CB 3175
Phone: 919-962-1844 Sitterson Hall; Room 044
Fax: 919-962-1799 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
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