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Contact Mathias Waack. He can probably give you plenty of resources.
[email protected]
He manages the only successful Linux based infrastructure in governmental institutions in Germany.
Mathias Waack is a legend
Very Waack
Waack in German actually means prince or "crown holder". He's indeed the monarch of the city council, thus overseeing the infrastructure and so on.
Mathias means Messiah. It's the "crown holding saviour". And a lot of people actually see him like that even though it's an ancient title and - nowadays - basically meaningless.
All I know is he's got Ma Thias craving some socks
That's interesting. Genuinely interested in how you can have desktop Linux pcs managed as effectively. I would love it if institutions in the U.S use Linux for their desktops.
Back in the day, a friend of mine used to run a cyber cafe with Linux machines in kiosk mode. He said the management was very hassle free.
There's some hidden kiosk mode?
You could configure certain DEs in a kiosk mode. I don't know much about it, but it reset the session and user to a default at every log off, he could track usage time, do all sorts of remote session management.
If you search for Linux for classrooms there are probably a couple projects still around.
That's so cool. What kind of remote management does he use?
I'm sorry, I didn't go into it back then. And we're talking like 15 years ago. He doesn't even own the cafe anymore (what with smart phones and all), was a repair tech for a while, and now I don't know, we lost touch.
Do cyber cafes not exist anymore? Genuinely curious, don't see them around my area.
Nope, the concept pretty much vanished after we started carrying the internet in our pockets. Even LAN houses (as in places for gaming) are gone, but I can't identify a clear reason for those.
Any thoughts about doing the same for Canada, Trudeau?
Cnada