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Shaping up openkiosk 3.0
All active development has been happening behind the scenes mostly on CVS. If you are interested in keeping track of recent changes, please update your local copy of the source via CVS.
I'm pleased to announce that most of the code that comprises the modular OpenKiosk 3.0 is starting to take shape. The OpenKiosk Management Console, the GUI management tool (formerly nodeview) that remotely manages the CoreOpenkiosk server is quite stable enough to be usable. The same level of stability can also be said of the CoreOpenkiosk server itself.
Now, back to the features itself - what's this stuff about OMC and CoreOpenkiosk:
I have failed to emphasize this on the previous news posting but another important achievement of the modular version is that remote management of terminals now goes beyond a single local area network. One of the possibilities that arises from this setup is that managing large numbers of multiple clients via the Internet is now possible. This is due to the fact that the core openkiosk server or CoreOpenkiosk is no longer attached with the GUI tool as was previously done with NodeView. CoreOpenkiosk is a server process that can run alonside Apache web servers.
In addition, this modular approach is also very useful even down to single computers. You can now use OpenKiosk as a time management tool to lock down your standalone Linux or Windows PC so that you can manage who or when it is going to be used. This has been made possible because you can now have the CoreOpenkiosk server running as a daemon process in Linux/Unix or a service process in Windows without running the NodeView program.
2008-04-30 16:24:37 UTC by xynopsis
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new alpha release with heavy fixes
Hi,
I've just released a new version of Openkiosk that
fixes glaring problems that remained unsolved for
months if not years! :) Sorry for the delay folks and the time spent on waiting!
Basically this release, splits up openkiosk into a
number of subsystems in order to improve flexibility and to accomodate a number of important improvements which should allow one to make use of authentication plugins for example.
However the most important benefit of this release is that the authentication server is no longer tied to a single instance of the nodeview GUI application. You can now have multiple nodeview instances that connects to a single openkiosk server which is secured by the operating system (think of the vmware management console as a concrete example). One nice result of this scheme is that the settings are no longer encrypted in a broken manner just to prevent them from being modified. As you may have noticed the previous releases has bugs wherein the "operators" or
administrator users of the program has difficulty in logging in. That bug is a result of broken encryption. This release effectively fixes that error.
Although the release is a bit rough right now, it
should give you an overall idea of what we're trying to accomplish here in the next version. See
accompanying [sparse] documentation and the diagram to see how everything fits together.
Get the release via CVS:
cvs -z3
-d:pserver:anonymous@openkiosk.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/openkiosk
co -P OpenKiosk
Don't forget to report bugs! Enjoy!
Regards,
abj
2007-12-17 11:15:27 UTC by xynopsis
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NodeView Italian Released
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42127&package_id=117436&release_id=529340
Is the localized version of NodeView in Italian (thanks to Fausto Napolitano for that). You can submit your own .ts files so that a localized version of Openkiosk in your own language can be added to the sourceforge release page.
2007-08-02 11:38:53 UTC by xynopsis
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NodeView for Windows Update
2.0.3a
This update is a long overdue maintenance release that does not contain any new features.
However, it includes much needed fixes over the previous version of the NodeView Windows
version.
Perfomance/optimization improvements:
- Updated Qt library for Windows. Based on Qt
4.1.1 which offers significant performance
enhancements compared to the previous version
of Qt 4 for Windows.
- Recompiled Qt 4.1.1 using MS Visual Studio
2005 Professional instead of MingW. This
was made possible by modifying the qmake
source to allow creation of VC++ makefiles!
I'm not satisfied with the speed of MingW!
- The application itself is built using VC++
2005.
Stability improvements:
- Fixed crashes in startup, viewing reports,
switching operators, and accessing certain
features while no workstation are on view.
Depending on you setup you may or may need the Visual Studio 2005 redist files. Get it from here shoud you get DLL errors when running the application:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en
2006-04-26 06:05:33 UTC by xynopsis
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NodeView for Windows Released
The OpenKiosk 2.0 NodeView port for Windows has been finished today. It is built using the recently released Qt4 for Windows - Open Source edition by Trolltech. Lots of folks have been requesting this release for past months and finally its here! Previously, porting NodeView to Windows was next to impossible because a GPLd version of Qt for Windows did not exist yet.
Please take note that this release is still based on NodeView 2.0.2 Qt3 code. It does not yet take full advantage of the powerful features found in Qt4.
Download the release now:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openkiosk/nodeview-2.0.2-install.exe?download
-abj
2005-07-31 16:00:24 UTC by xynopsis
