On Monday 26 March 2007 15:16:55 Laxminarayan G Kamath A wrote:
A better solution to all this is to build a good Distro with server and client variations: There is a IE theme for Firefox. And KDE can have a mock-XP theme. A cyber cafe manager can run instead of KDM/GDM .. integrated into the authentication and session manager LDAP service of the server. The server can also have an LDAP integrated Kiosk manager.
The first kiosk can have a very simple startup page - instead of the normal desktop - it should have regular tasks that a cyber cafe user will do .. have buttons like "Firefox" .. I will put some mock-screens up and post the url.
Here is one small example: In Feb 2007, M$ with the help of local police started raiding on different places in West Bengal for pirated windows. As they came to Durgapur (Dist Burdwan), the local cybercafe owners were too tensed , some of them closed their shops until those people went back. But some others chose GNU/Linux right away. Our LUG members installed GNU/Linux in few of the cafes , where in some they installed themselves. And they are happy with it, they don't want to go back to windows any more.
That means it can be done in a larger scale.
Kushal