Re: google chromebooks and debian-edu

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 7:38 PM <keld@keldix.com> wrote:

hi

We have in Denmark had the Danish Data Protection Authority say that due to gdpr provisions,
helsingør municipality may not use googles chromebooks in school.
personal data is too likely to be disclosed to the US authorities. fisa 702.
it is said that something similar is the case for almost half of the Danish municipalities,
which use chromebooks in their schools.

I thought they could use skolelinux . debian-edu. is this a possibility? how can it be done technically?
can you use hardware and infrastructure? are there the same educational systems or the like?

An option might be to install Debian on chromebooks. There was a talk yesterday on DebConf22, about this:

https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/87-solving-how-can-i-run-debian-on-my-chromebook-for-good/

I hope that the recordings of the conference will be published soon.

Another option might be to use chromebooks as thin clients for connecting to a Linux server.

This can be done by installing Guacamole on the server, which can be accessed from a browser. So, you are going to use the browser of the chromebook as a thin client for accessing a Linux server. I know very well how to do this (although I have never tried it on a chromebook), so you can ask me more details if you wish.

See also this related presentation which has a demo: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/virtual-computer-lab/

Dashamir

what about operation? in denmark you have 'state it' which operates cloud solutions.
is that something you can recommend, or should the municipalities or others do it?

keld