kudos to you sashi,

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Shashi connect2shashi@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all, Yesterday a computer in an internet cafe I go to crashed due to constant irritating viral infection (They run Windows here). So they asked me for an XP CD. I suggested them to install Ubuntu and they let me do it on one of the systems, and now they want more! After looking at what all comes with it without paying anything (of course they were using windows illegally). They have 256 MiB ram but ubuntu is fast enough.... Now I'll be installing ubuntu on all other.. But my point of writing this mail is... How will the public who visit the cafe respond to it? But I think this is a nice way to tell people about GNU/Linux and give them their first experience, of course they'll feel this is good and try it at their place! maybe I'll ask the cafe owner to burn ubuntu for a disounted charge! They'll find it kinda wierd with the start button missing (I co\ustomised it to mimic windows tho) so i thought this can be used as a tool if we can make a beautiful documentation that shows what are analogous to windows, how to use them, where to get more help, let them know about fsm and stuff. So I initiated this git repo here to make HTML doc for the same, it is at http://github.com/ucafe.git you can pull/push from and to it with an ssh key.

''Is there anything that will let you set an HTML file as the desktop background in ubuntu?''

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--- On Sat, 22/11/08, Shashi connect2shashi@gmail.com wrote:

They'll find it kinda wierd with the start button missing (I co\ustomised it to mimic windows tho) so i thought this can be used as a tool if we can make a beautiful documentation that shows what are analogous to windows, how to use them, where to get more help, let them know about fsm and stuff. So I initiated this git repo here to make HTML doc for the same, it is at http://github.com/ucafe.git you can pull/push from and to it with an ssh key.

Hi,

Using gnu/linux for Internet cafes is great. There are couple of good kiosk mode hacks for running machines customized for browsing and all.

There are still some problems that needs to be address like the one issue about IM clients (see http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/10/instant-messengers-for-kiosk-linu... for kiosk mode links ) and others.

cheers

--arky

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati Blog [ http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com ]

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