ubuntu for Internet cafe

[Norm, VK3XCI]

Dave,

Where in country vic... reply offlist if you wish?

Can you document what  you did? I'm sure there aremore people than me 
interested. I'm ramping up my own (very) small business at the moment and it 
sounds like something to run with!






73 de Norm, VK3XCI
Mildura, Australia
The Wintersun City
QF15bt.

On 18/06/2010 13:45, Dave Hall wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
>> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 18:47 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
>>
>> I am the only one who is want a ubnutu system at the internet cafe,
>> and the only way is to demo it in the wild, but I don't want to keep
>> repeating the same steps (download this, download that)
>>
>> so what about a custom liveCD
>> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization ) ?
>> or should I just look at persistent image?
>
> I run an ubuntu powered internet cafe for a small town in country
> Victoria.  They are currently running Hardy on 3 P4s.
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> I have an NFS server which stores all the home directories, the machines
> automatically login after 15 seconds.  Accounts are stored in LDAP to
> make it easier to swap machines out.
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> Some of the files are marked as read only.  I still need to do more work
> lock things down, but overall it works well.  They used to have at least
> an issue a week when they were running XP, now there is something minor
> for me to look at once or twice a month.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
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