RE: Re: [little OT] Creating a public terminal

From: Bob Romprey (zoot@farts.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 00:37:28 CEST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Well let's see,........kids could mess up the config in 15 minutes, and it would take a tech 15 minutes to get the system back up and running.
Given these parameters, one tech could keep 4 machines running full time.
With the price of tech wages this is clearly an unsatisfactory solution, unless one works for the government, in quite case it's business as usual 8^P
Wondering how well a system running from a cd-rom would fit this application?

>Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:14:33 +0300 (EAT)
>From: Stephen Kasirye <kassets@techmuk.ac.ug>
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>SUBJECT
>On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, richard kirkcaldy nicely wrote:
>
>> 12/06/01 13:48:00, Vesa-Pekka Palmu <depili@sci.fi> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >The terminal will be used for entertainment, In a childrens hospital, this is why windows is totally out of
>> question, as the configs would get messed in about 15 minutes by little "computer experts". So as the
>> computer woun't be containing any personal data, there is no need for separate logins for users. The plan is to
>> create a static system that woun't be destroyed by people unpluggin the computer when it is running etc.
>>
>> @Entertainment in Linux? Are you joking? I can see why you don't want to run windows, but I was talking to a
>> technician at a local school the other day - and all their machines run windows, with a linux partition which is a
>> mirror of the windows partition how it should be with everything correctly setup.
>> Every time a student does something wrong, the techncians just boot into linux as root - and copy the files
>> back. Within 15 minutes they can have a whole classroom back up and running.
>> This is especcially effective as all student work is stored on a network server, and modern PC's all come with
>> hard drives which are too big for every day use.
>>
>
>I for one do not see a problem with having entertainment in Linux.
>Why really run windows on your machines? Are you no fed up of Windows as
>yet? For sure windows could be good for games, but I still think there are
>many games in Linux that many have not come across as yet unlike windows.
>
>A grand alternative to all this is to actually get a Sony Playstation,
>Nintendo game boy or Microsoft Xbox (not necessary :) ). Since they were
>designed for games in particular.
>
>Stephen
>
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