We have a beta version of our live cd demo based on Ubuntu 5.10
available for download at:
http://ftp.open-sense.net/badger/groovix_badger_live_20051113.iso
It uses the evdev approach for multiple x servers and sessiond for
sound. It will work in single-user or multi-user modes depending on
how many video cards and keyboards/mice you have plugged in.=20
Multi-user sound support is in there too if you have multiple sound
cards.
By default the stations will boot into our kiosk desktop, but you can
also log in to standard gnome desktops as well. The Ubuntu live cd is
very flexible, you can customize just about everything and install
arbitrary programs onto it while running as long as you have enough
ram. You can run this cd with 512MB, but 1GB is nicer. Once
everything has been accessed once and is cached in ram, it is pretty
fast.
NOTE: This version will only work in multi-user mode with nvidia
cards, but you can just make some changes to the xorg.conf for other
brands, we just didn't get fancy with autodetection. Also, it is set
up to read customizations from our server when it boots, so if you
want a custom version without respinning the disc, just give us your
MAC address and $50 and we'll set you up with a custom account and 1
year of basic support. We can also respin custom discs for you if you
want bigger changes that are slow to load over the network.
We've still got a bit of work to do, we are polishing per-user usb
drive support, consistent usb sound device assignment, and multiXnest
2 displays per video card support.
We'd love some feedback, so let us know what problems you run into,
and what other features you would like to see.
Thanks,
Mike Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
http://opensensesolutions.com
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