Sugar Beets

Some of you might already know that I set up a school lab in a primary school with Sugar. After showing the power of Sugar with Soas in some classes, the principal agreed to an installation in the lab.

I am doing a double boot installation with Windows and Fedora 11. As they have a school server I can use LDAP and NFS to leave the user authentication and storage of their personal data to the server. The clients, are fat clients though, having each a full installation. Ldap and ntfs I already set up before the holidays and today I wanted to get an image of my master machine onto the server, that it could be cloned to the whole lab.

For that I need to boot over the network, which is not in the default boot options. The bios has a password and after trying standard passwords for three times the machine beeped like hell and I had to turn it off to not get the attention of the police. After calling the IT service I got a password, which hopefully gets me into the bios tomorrow.

Currently, I have GNOME and Sugar as desktops available on the machine. I want all the users to have Sugar as the default session. I could not really figure out how to do that (I tried editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf without luck), so if someone has an idea, please leave me a line. For now I have added ‘Hidden=True’ to the ‘/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop’ to not display it as available option.

Tags: Planetarium, Sugar

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