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  • From: Brian Payst <brian_payst AT unc.edu>
  • To: "John W. Sopko Jr." <sopko AT cs.unc.edu>
  • Cc: unclug AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [unclug] there's penguins in the Union
  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:22:06 -0500

After some debate with myself (very entertaining) I left crt+alt+backspace just for that reason. If one gets hung on some odd web site, just kill the X server and you're back within 5-10 seconds.

We've just the 5 you see there, but I've got plans for at least one more and I think eventually we'll put more in various places in the Union (there certainly are enough ports in there) and maybe other locations. The nice part is adding a kiosk just involves plugging it's MAC into the server configs, a couple account tweaks and we're off.

I should also throw out a thanks to Jeff Bollinger who helped me troubleshoot some IPTables issues on the fly during the initial set-up.

John W. Sopko Jr. wrote:

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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