Re: XFCE For Debian JR
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:17:02AM +0000, John Gay wrote:
> I am working on a very integrated network environment for my daughters
> school. Among the things I am implementing are a large number of
> X-Terminals running of workstations in the classrooms, that, in turn,
> will get most of there apps from a server in the school office.
Widespread deployment of X-Terminals in a school environment has a
number of issues that placing a few PC's in the home does not. However,
there is some overlap ...
> I think this could be of interest to people who want to give their
> family more access to computers without spending loads of money on
> equipment or fighting for a turn at the family PC. My daughters
> original PC was an old PC running as an X-Terminal from my computer
> before she got her cousins hardware after she upgraded.
That will certainly be an elment of establishing the Debian Jr. base
system. The "ultra-light" system I described earlier is suitable as an X
terminal with some limited capabilities for running things directly on the
system itself. Our documentation should cover how to configure the
desktop to launch things from a parent's box.
> The advantage of this is, with hardware that is currently selling for
> less than £50. and won't run Windows98 and a little network gear,
> others in the family can have identical access to the family PC
> simultaneously Lets see M$ do that! Hopefully, I'll be able to
> provide the details of how to set this up for others benefit.
Sure.
> Along these lines, I was wondering how difficult it would be to have an
> automatic X-Terminal installation for Debian. At the moment I just
> install the base system, then install the X packages, remove xdm
> afterwards and just use X -query XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX to start the
> X-Terminal. It seems that Debian would be the perfect distro for
> having a one-line X-Terminal installation If I know more about how the
> Debian packaging system worked, I could do it myself. But I can just
> barely use apt-get and prefer gnome-apt because it lets me browse the
> package list and select what I want.
Well, that's not exactly the sort of thing I have set up on my
"ultra-light" systems. Cheap X terminals have applications everywhere, so
perhaps you could see what the "X Strike Force" (The Debian X support
team) has to say about this idea. For all I know they have already done
something like this. Have a look (it is linked from
http://www.debian.org/devel) and check the archives of the debian-x
list to see if it has already been discussed. I can't imagine it is a new
idea. Debian Jr. could make use of any such work by referencing whatever
material this team produces.
> Just my 1.575128 Euro's worth.
:)
Ben
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