[Linux-aus] The Open Source Victoria LiveLAMP Project

[Grant Diffey]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:38:05PM +1000, Con Zymaris wrote:
[Massive SNIP]
I've added some potential ideas because I wasn't on OSV for the discussion if you've already thought of these or feel it's too late to alter the spec. then please dissregard
>  
> ** Programs
>  
>         - No X11
>         - ftp, rsync for students to copy data to `server'
>         - sshd, nano / joe / vim for advanced students (and emacs, but 
> 	don't advertise it?)
>         - apache2, postgres, mysql, php, python, perl
>         - rcs, cvs
	A Selection of stand alone windows executables nothing that requires installing but. for example sc1.exe is about a million times more plesant than notepad and is free software(scintilla based editor) 
	a w3c validator 
> 
> ** Scripts
> 
>         - Script to delete /home and user accounts, then create new ones.
		create user accounts from a textfile list?
>         - Script to re-install /etc and /var from the CD (without hosing 
> 	students' files).
>         - Script to erase disk (so that a fresh install happens on next 
> 	boot).
> 
>         - Tell the teacher the IP or hostname, so that students know what 
> 	to connect to.
> 
>         - Dump password list to a known HTML page/location, so that
>           teachers can render it in a browser and then print it.
> 
> ** Misc
> 
>         - Root can only log in locally (security feature).
>         - Disk quotas to prevent students using server for filesharing.
> 
> * Remarks
> 
>         - KNOPPIX expects DHCP.  Anything else will require customization 
> 	and
>           prompting the teacher during installation (sounds like a feature 
> 	for
>           1.1 to me).
> 
>         - Knoppix 3.7 has a persistent home directory feature.
> 
> 
> ***
> 
> 
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