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  1. Groovix Public Access software by digitalride · · Score: 1 · on Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing?

    My company developed the Groovix Public Access/Kiosk environment and it will do everything you need.
    http://groovix.com/solutions_public_access.html

    Just download the Groovix Public Access environment demo disk and boot it. You can install it to hard drive for faster boot up if necessary, and customize it yourself if you're a linux geek. We can customize it for you starting at $99.
    http://groovix.com/store/index.php?main_page=produ ct_info&cPath=1&products_id=17

  2. Groovix Public Access software by digitalride · · Score: 1 · on Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing?

    My company developed the Groovix Public Access/Kiosk environment and it will do everything you need.
    http://groovix.com/solutions_public_access.html

    Just download the Groovix Public Access environment demo disk and boot it. You can install it to hard drive for faster boot up if necessary, and customize it yourself if you're a linux geek. We can customize it for you starting at $99.
    http://groovix.com/store/index.php?main_page=produ ct_info&cPath=1&products_id=17

  3. Simple answer is Groovix by RobTerrell · · Score: 1 · on Multiple Desktop Users on a Single Machine?

    Try Groovix. This was mentioned above, but it's been overwhelmed by do-it-yourself solutions, and if you're the one IT guy for a charter school, you probably need it simple and reliable. Check out their distro. It's based on Ubuntu, and you can download it from their web site.

    For more info, check this page: http://groovix.com/slim.html which explains how they support up to 10 seats (monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers) per computer.

    There's an article about Groovix being used in Maryland libraries here: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/22/15422 54

  4. Re:The reason why our company does is ... by digitalride · · Score: 1 · on Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE?
    You shouldn't be relying on the browser to clear all user data between users, and certainly not using IE with anything that sensitive. Use the Groovix Public Access Computing solution, everything will be completely reset between users.

    http://groovix.com/solutions_public_access.html

    It is open source, and completely free if you do your own customizations.
    Disclaimer: I'm the developer of that product.

  5. Re:I don't know, but... by ElleyKitten · · Score: 1 · on Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast

    If you want to buy a computer with Linux preloaded, you can go to Groovix, System 76, or Koobox. If you don't want to buy a new computer, I recommend Linux Mint or Freespire. Both of them are more user friendly to Windows converters and come things like flash and mp3 playback already installed.

    As for Dell, they've had shitastic Windows support for years, so they'd be much better off just sending people to Canonical's or Red Hat's or whoever's tech support.

  6. Re:This is not news. by ElleyKitten · · Score: 1 · on Dell Sells Open Source Computers
    If I buy one of these, and add a wireless network adapter, does Dell help me get it configured? I'd pay $500 just for that.
    You're better off buying a computer with a wireless adapter from a company that preinstalls Linux. System76, Koobox, and Groovix sell Linux PCs, so you should check them out.
  7. Anedotal evidence by CustomDesigned · · Score: 1 · on Year of the Mainframe? Not Quite, Say Linux Grids
    There are many legitimate horror stories, and "it just worked" stories for both XP and recent Linux distros. To me, that says they are comparable. To objectively compare them, you would have to take a random sample and measure what percentage of installs were "horror story" vs "it just worked". It would be a tricky study to do right and keep the conditions similar on both sides (i.e. - I wouldn't trust a Microsoft funded version of it).

    But even if such a study showed that XP "just worked" more often than Ubuntu (which I personally suspect to be the case), the two would still be in the same ballpark. So the claim that Linux distros are "not ready" for the desktop is just not true. There may be differences in the "just works" batting average for non-techies, but you have a good chance of it "just working" with any modern Linux distro or XP.

    The real clincher, however, is that you have an almost %100 chance of everything "just working" if you buy a preinstalled system. These are available for linux distros as well as the ubiquitos XP. Unlike with XP, linux distros actually have a choice of software vendors for preinstalls.

  8. I use LTSP by CustomDesigned · · Score: 1 · on A Security Guide For Non-Technical Users?
    Our family uses LTSP terminals (1999 era PCs sans hard drive from peoples dumpsters). They are connected to a $400 Dell server running Linux. Kids logins are automatically disabled until they finish chores. We have a computer curfew (auto-logout at midnight) on school nights. Family policy website filtering via squid for younger kids (as opposed to paying some company who may or may not share our values). In short, you can automate a lot of policies (you don't have to like mine) without limiting functionality. LTSP supports sound and video (video over X uses a lot of LAN bandwidth - you'll want gigabit ethernet). Web, Email, Open Office, etc all work well.

    The Groovix company offers a Debian based server with 4 or so screens and keyboards attached - with full telephone support. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like a viable solution for those who aren't linux experts.

    At first, the kids complained about not having Windows games. But now, they like Linux games (some of our terminals can boot off local disk and have 3D cards to play Tux Racer, etc). They can play Windows games at any of their friends houses, but their friends come over to play Linux games.

    Remind me again why we need Windows at home?

    Ok, PC tax software is only available for Windows. Some years I fire up an old Win 98 box to run the tax software. Other years, I just do it manually. TaxAct and others offer free online tax software - but I dislike putting all my info in some companies remotely accessible database. When I fire up Win98, I pay $20 for the deluxe version. I wish I could buy electronic tax forms annually for $20 and run them on an open source engine. I guess the companies are afraid to do that without some kind of DRM.

  9. Re:Set Them Up as Thin Clients by digitalride · · Score: 1 · on Setting up Linux in an Inner City Public School?
    If the machines use too much electricity, are too slow, or are incompatible as thin clients, use Groovix SLIM http://groovix.com/slim.html software based on Ubuntu for the most cost effective approach. Get a $25 watt meter and see how much electricity those old boxes are using, it may not be worth it to keep them running.

    Groovix software is free as in beer and freedom, as opposed to the proprietary and costly Discoverstation from Userful. The Userful software licenses will cost you more than new hardware and open source software combined.

    Howard County library in Maryland is switching all of their public computers to Groovix software which is based on Ubuntu. They are having a product launch this Thursday, Sept. 21st, you should stop by.

  10. browser based systems are key by digitalride · · Score: 1 · on OSS Library Management Solutions?

    We've pitched KOHA to some libraries, but non-technical librarians are afraid that something will break and there will be no support.

    Even if a closed source management system is used, make sure that clients can connect using a standard web browser. Then all of your client machines can be open source, running Firefox. Some people use LTSP thin client/server setups in large libraries, but our http://groovix.com/kiosk.html multi-user machines provide 4 workstations for $999 which is even more economical.

    It just kills me to see library patrons referencing card catalogs and typing documents on $800 dell machines running XP. More money might be wasted on the client machines than the management system itself

  11. Absolutely Perfect for multi-user systems by digitalride · · Score: 1 · on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking

    My company wanted to try dual processors in our multi-user systems, but the motherboards and processors are just too expensive.

    These dual-cores are just another reason we feel that multi-user computing is going to be the efficient choice of the future, instead of everyone having their own high-powered machine. Single user machines will probably not take full advantage of the dual-cores for some time

    These are great for our local multi-user approach, but will also help networked thin client approaches like LTSP. Having one processor or core per user isn't even necessary, just having the second core will do a lot to lower latency when one cpu is busy with a thread.

    We can't wait to start putting them in our http://groovix.com/ systems in June...

  12. I don't think MS can compete by digitalride · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP

    Unless you have a ton of old reliable boxen to run LTSP or other thin client solutions on, thin clients are way too expensive new for what you get. Local Multi-user systems are much more efficient. Especially when running 4 people on one box, open source (free) software is the only way to avoid killer software costs, so I don't think Microsoft can compete in this arena. You can get new hardware (and all the software you need) for 3 or 4 users for less than $1000 with an open source solution. For more info on local multi-user systems, check out http://groovix.com/ (that's my company, so obviously I'm biased!)