<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us">eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1099504790.3908.38.camel@ltsp.mesd.k12.or.us" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">This weekend I'm going to a LTSP developer's conference in Maine. I have Friday -> Monday carved out for K12LTSP development. While I have some dedicated time, what do you guys & gals want me to work on? I have two objectives: 1) Immediate needs. What changes do you want to see in K12LTSP 4.2.0? (keeping in mind I'd like to have this finished in the next two weeks ;-) 2) Start work on the next major version. What are the major issues issues/enhancements that you would like to see in the next 6-12 months? Since I will be traveling, I won't have the hardware necessary to finish K12LTSP 3.2.0. It is perfectly fine to request this as a priority, but it won't get done this weekend ;-) To kick things off, here is the list of topics that have been suggested for the LTSP developer's conference: * LDAP Authentication possibly w/Kerberos? * Local display manager * Local App Building/Packaging * Local app invocation * Local drive support (usb devices, floppy, cdrom) * Desktop shadowing (VNC, x11vnc, x110rbserver) * Security audit of the ltsp tree, file perms, ownership, tcpwrappers * Low bandwidth (NX, FreeNX) * Other non-x86 architectures for LTSP thin clients (PPC,Sparc,StrongArm) * Using SSH to tunnel the X traffic -Eric </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> Hi Eric, Well you asked for it .... 1) Simple administration tools similar to those available on OSX management console. i.e. ability to assign applications to groups of users or to individual users. 2) Remote viewing console used by teachers to monitor AND control what the "little monsters" are doing 3) Simple reporting tool that generates a detailed list of the activities of a given user. Again not as a root tool but a Teacher tool 4) Application selection on the fly ...... i.e once the kids have completed their work turn on games/browsing but if they haven't then they can't do anything else. I have a much longer list but I don't want to discourage you since you've already have contributed so much to this project. ..... OH wireless thin-clients would also be great particularly for those "snooty" private schools that have to have the latest & greatest and actually have MONEY to PAY for it. thanks again and my regrets as I sadly will not be able to attend the conference. norbert </body> </html>