tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373831192024-03-05T21:23:43.232-06:00Careful with that axe, EugeneScott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-86465912636731589252011-03-29T12:16:00.002-05:002011-03-29T12:29:00.184-05:00xexit reaches 1.0. Thanks JuhaThanks to a <a href="http://www.opinsys.fi/en/killing-user-processes-with-xexit-on-ltsp-servers">nice article</a> by Juha, I put in some polishing on xexit, my solution to rotten processes that just don't know when to quit on LTSP servers.<br /><br />I've included a (slightly modified) version of Juha's script (and, of course, added him to the AUTHORS file), got a proper manpage for it, and done some packaging.<br /><br />Certain members of <a href="http://www.propus.com.br/">the Brazillian hyper-geniuses</a> have indicated it may be possible to get someone to sponsor it for Debian.<br /><br />In the meantime, users looking to try it can check my <a href="https://launchpad.net/~sbalneav/+archive/ppa">ppa</a>, and grab the 1.0 version there. Note that the xexit scripts you need will be in the /usr/share/docs/xexit directory, and should be copied to /etc/Xexit.d. I don't install them there by default, as they're Gnome specific, and I don't wish to aggrivate (by default) users of other <a href="http://www.kde.org">fine</a> <a href="http://www.lxde.org">desktops</a>.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-2295386389797720942010-02-11T08:56:00.000-06:002010-02-11T08:57:24.943-06:00Gnome Foundation"Dear Scott Balneaves,<br /><br />We are pleased to inform you that you are now part of the GNOME<br />Foundation Membership."<br /><br />Huzzah!Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-16111000206142726582010-01-14T19:24:00.002-06:002010-01-14T19:29:00.181-06:00Sabayon 2.29.5 ReleasedThe Sabayon team has released Sabayon 2.29.5, codenamed "Chutney and Oratory". There's some major improvements this time around, including handling symlinks in profiles, a couple of crasher bugs squashed, and support added for SELinux.<br /><br />If you're an administrator of Gnome desktops, you OWE it to youself to checkout <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/sabayon">Sabayon</a>.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-83927406216892761042010-01-13T09:36:00.003-06:002010-01-13T09:40:19.976-06:00Edubuntu Bug Day ReduxWe had an excellent bug day. Sabayon's now included in the seeds, 4 LTSP bugs got squashed, a new Gartoon-redux package was created for Lucid (Thanks Tweenk), xaos got some love, we updated the packagebug tracker, etc.<br /><br />All in all, a good day.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-44620165008756268902010-01-07T19:44:00.002-06:002010-01-07T19:46:40.733-06:00Bug Day!!!Edubuntu will be having a bug-stomping day on January 12, hosted by yours truly.<br /><br />We've already got 4 or 5 bugs that our users would really like to see sorted out for loopy lemur, so pop on by #edubuntu, and join the funScott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-14713300657391905422010-01-05T09:01:00.000-06:002010-01-05T09:02:31.061-06:00Vagrant's quote of the year (so far)15:13 < sbalneav> If I'm gonna solve this problem...<br />15:13 < sbalneav> I'm going to freaking *SOLVE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS* out of it.<br />15:14 * vagrantc chucklesScott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-51013035337523149232009-12-21T15:49:00.003-06:002009-12-21T15:58:51.445-06:00Sabayon, Edubuntu CouncilI'm now a member of the Edubuntu Council. Huzzah! Work continues apace to make Lurid Limpet the best Edubuntu yet!<br /><br />One of the biggest issues for Edumacators is having a good, solid desktop management tool. Sabayon's the tool of the now. I've managed to annoy Federico^W^Winsert myself fairly firmly into the upstream process, and soon (I hope) I should have my GNOME Foundation membership!<br /><br />There should be a new release of Sabayon soon, and it'll be in Edubuntu, so testers, get fired up. You know, for the kids!<br /><br />P.S. There's this freaking "monetize" tab at the top of blogspot. Who dreamed up this completely insane word? Twenty lashes with an OED. The full one, by the way.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-30194316725660614492009-08-26T21:52:00.002-05:002009-08-26T22:05:46.720-05:00Work on Sabayon, upstream and in EdubuntuAs one of our goals for the upcoming release of Edubuntu, we <span style="font-weight:bold;">really</span> wanted to get a working <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/sabayon/">Sabayon</a> to allow teachers and systems administrators to manage user profiles. Sabayon's been in a buggy state in Ubuntu for a bit, so I decided to buckle down and start learning the codebase.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gnome.org/~federico/">Federico</a>, who has already come to LTSP users aid by working on his excellent patches to Firefox to reduce pixmap usage, once again stepped up to the plate and answered my many silly questions and accepted several patches from me. As well, his work on getting Sabayon working with <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr">Xephyr</a> has basically turned Sabayon into a useful tool again.<br /><br />I feel that this tool is such an important one, not only for regular desktop users, but especially for LTSP users, that I'm planning on becoming a permanent upstream contributor. Sorry, Federico, looks like you're stuck with me!<br /><br />I'm not saying all the bugs have been beaten out of it quite yet, but it's gone from a piece of software that wouldn't even boot before, to one in which you can edit and apply profiles.<br /><br />And today, thanks to <a href="https://edge.launchpad.net/~stgraber">stgraber</a>'s help, it landed in Karmic.<br /><br />Hooray for profiles!Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-71210096529039527542008-12-09T11:27:00.004-06:002008-12-09T11:34:37.366-06:00LTSP docs, Edubuntu handbookSo, looks as if Nubae and I will resurrect the languishing Edubuntu handbook, and get it up-to-date. Between the work that's been put in on the LTSP docs upstream (http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspDocumentationUpstream), the work that Lns has put in on the Ubuntu wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP) and the commitment to get the Handbook back in shape, things are coming along nicely.<br /><br />Feel like helping? Do the needful...Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-6136734034038951852008-11-14T10:52:00.002-06:002008-11-14T10:59:20.199-06:00Great moments in #ltsp democracy<span style="font-family:courier new;">10:42 <wima> for the moment, i just disabled those damn floppies</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:42 <vagrantc> i wonder if we shouldn't put some sort of check in ltspfs to detect the "user not in own group" problem</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:43 <rjune> perhaps it should be documented</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:43 <sbalneav> rjune++</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:43 <sbalneav> I volunteer rjune.</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:43 <sbalneav> all in favour?</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:43 <vagrantc> ++</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:43 <sbalneav> ++</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:44 <wima> ++</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:44 <jammcq> rjune++</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">10:44 <rjune> dammit</span>Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-42628952624093046962008-11-13T15:48:00.003-06:002008-11-13T16:24:49.728-06:00LTSP BTS 2008 After Action ReportSo, I've been back for a couple of days now, and I keep saying to myself, "Self, time to update the blog." So, here I am.<br /><br />I won't go into the gory details of the fun we had, because all of you who are reading this (all 3 of you) probably don't care. Suffice it to say that lobsters were eaten, Linie Aquavit was drunk, and blueberry pancakes were cooked.<br /><br />On to the tech details.<br /><br />I was just commenting on #ltsp that it seems like we've crossed a tipping point. With Ubuntu/Canonical's early help, we did a very rapid, but buggy/incomplete first cut of LTSP5. We've spent a year or two adding features with LTSP luminaries such as ogra, Gadi, vagrantc, warren, and myself frantically coding and fixing bugs. I think the last big ticket item we got nailed down in the summer in Portland at Freegeek was the work I started with localapps, and warren and Gadi carried over the finish line.<br /><br />This one felt different, in a good way. The frantic "Arrrgh, how do we fix this bug!!!" is beginning to die down, to be replaced by the more calm and thoughtful, "Hmmm, how can we improve this?"<br /><br />stgraber, fgiraldeau and myself worked on some great LDM improvements. Better logging, fixing an annoying race condition, better failed password timeouts, etc. are all things that have come out of this hackfest. Plus the work they've been doing with Revolution Linux for the cluster LTSP that's making it's way into upstream is great.<br /><br />Another great thing is the great distro support now. warren's handling Fedora, vagrantc's all over Debian, ogra/stgraber have Ubuntu wrapped up solid, dberkholtz and johnny have been working on integrating into Gentoo (still waiting for the compile to finish OH THAT JOKE NEVER GETS OLD) CyberOrg et al are working on Kiwi for OpenSuSE. This is what we wanted to see, and it's great.<br /><br />For cute fans of LTSP... err, Qt fans of LTSP, chrisinajar and brendan0powers showed up, and started hacking, and got a Qt greeter fleshed out.<br /><br />Docs have made some great strides. Nubae, cliebow, djohnston and myself have worked hard to bring them up to shape, and they're starting to look good. bzr get lp:~ltsp-docwriters/ltsp/ltsp-docs-upstream for all the gory details. I'm going to work with LaserJock from #edubuntu to hopefully get us started down the packaging road, and hopefully the others above will kick in. yup/apt-get install ltsp-docs, anyone?<br /><br />In short, lots of great bugfixes, improvements, and a few new features. We've got some bugs I want to squash in Hardy (what I run here at Legal Aid), so LaserJock's going to help me backport/SRU some of the work we've done, and we'll get it out there for the Long Term Support release. I know vagrantc's been madly uploading into -experimental for Debian.<br /><br />I'll close with this: Like thin client computing? Can you code in C/sh/docbook? Like the taste of lobster/steak? Enjoy beer? Know any good Norwegian Drinking Songs? Own a tuxedo? Then you might have a bright future in the exciting world of LTSP development.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-63173189342850647472008-11-07T07:27:00.002-06:002008-11-07T07:29:12.149-06:00LTSP BTS Day 1The LTSP crew is back in Bah Hahbah (Bar Harbor) Maine. More to come as the day progresses....Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-82211654401652130212007-11-01T06:34:00.000-05:002007-11-01T06:53:28.674-05:00Local Apps 2: The Next MorningWell, now that the affects of the Woodchuck Draft Cider and Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale (thanks Eric!) have worn off, perhaps a further expansion of my worse-than-average typed blog posting of last night can be expanded upon.<br /><br />Localapps, for those uninitiated with LTSP lingo, is the idea of running an application down on the thin client itself. Normally, once you log into a thin client, your session exists on the server, and you do all the work ON the server. So, if you have a classroom full of kids, say 30, running Firefox, you have 30 instances of Firefox running on the server. If you have 30 kids watching videos in flash, you have 30 instances of Firefox and flash running on the server.<br /><br />Ouch is right.<br /><br />What you'd <span style="font-weight: bold;">really</span> like to have the option of doing, if you have beefy enough thin clients, is run the Firefox + flash down on the thin client itself. The problem is, your thin client has no concept of who it's user is: that's all up on the server. Name Switch Services, home directory, plumbing, etc. All has to come from the server, and it's all a bit of a bear to set up. ("What do you mean I need to get LDAP going? What's an LDAP?")<br /><br />However, we've come up with a cool little method (ltsp-localapps spec on Launchpad, for those interested) that allows us to do it with a bare minimum of fuss, muss, and bother.<br /><br />So, armed with beverages, thin clients, laptops, and a general sense of merriment and excitement, 4 intrepid LTSP hackers set off to get it going on All Hallow's Eve. Eric Harrison, Francis Giraldeau, Stéphane Graber, and myself hacked for a couple of hours, and got it going. First app launched was Xclock, closely followed by Firefox! Not satisfied with this major victory, we decided to push on, and installed flash in the chroot. After some futzing around, (Stéphane realizing that we needed to add the user to the audio group on the thin client itself), we were watching videos on YouTube. On the thin client.<br /><br />For posterity: first video watched was Wierd Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy", what else? At one point, we were playing 2 simultaneously! All this on a 900mhz thin client with 256 megs of ram. Not too shabby.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-78609493629412532572007-10-31T22:55:00.000-05:002007-10-31T23:26:23.889-05:00Local apps<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7jphfLdL2HT6alZ_0XnOUeoJo_spMfU4X_Sx0DAljNlCKo-WKY_2fIfjtub3J3VfMrBM_8fZcdBkT93BxLm7G-MciqgOcktpT_Y3KZ7M8zhY2gLLcHvkb5KWr80gtVvXDRo7Qg/s1600-h/IMG_2331.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7jphfLdL2HT6alZ_0XnOUeoJo_spMfU4X_Sx0DAljNlCKo-WKY_2fIfjtub3J3VfMrBM_8fZcdBkT93BxLm7G-MciqgOcktpT_Y3KZ7M8zhY2gLLcHvkb5KWr80gtVvXDRo7Qg/s320/IMG_2331.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127717403583021426" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DuMhM9eG5XWb85XoyURlcLNgiKgB0bdJxHTENN2_kxPrpw7uAT1wFz-N5jdMtsDdggx4NSWqcy0Af5_HtZGe875JvReQNo7z4BG7cQ2reQRjx8YAHUgRCBAbvSnXwDjumH07ZQ/s1600-h/IMG_2325.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DuMhM9eG5XWb85XoyURlcLNgiKgB0bdJxHTENN2_kxPrpw7uAT1wFz-N5jdMtsDdggx4NSWqcy0Af5_HtZGe875JvReQNo7z4BG7cQ2reQRjx8YAHUgRCBAbvSnXwDjumH07ZQ/s320/IMG_2325.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127716875302044002" border="0" /></a><br />4 4geeks, 4 beers, 2 hours. Firefox running on a local thin client.<br /> With flash. And sound. Oooooooh yeaaahhhhScott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-73308629520286253272007-09-25T10:19:00.000-05:002007-09-25T10:27:11.287-05:00Evince/FormsSo, I blogged about this last November. For gutsy, with the latest Gnome, it's become now mainline. Fillable forms in Evince.<br /><br />Wow.<br /><br />This is a huge step forward in functionality. The non Free version of Acrobat is... a little unstable for us (read: crashes constantly), and flpsed's a tad odd to use for end users. So, handling fillable forms right within Evince is going to make a big usability improvement for our users.<br /><br />If we get the ability down the road to save a copy of the PDF with the forms filled in, that will be a really nice treat, and in fact, a step above what's available in the non Free version. But for now, my wish has been granted.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-5903386206006453842007-09-08T08:50:00.000-05:002007-09-08T08:57:06.699-05:00Fix It Friday, Edubuntu, LTSP5Wow. Yesterday was Fix It Friday (FIF) for Edubuntu, and we got a lot of stuff done. Bugs were squashed in Sabayon, dhcpd, denemo, and LTSP, as well as a ton of testing. I personally put in 15+ hours, and Ollie did the same. Very worthwhile.<br /><br />LTSP5 in Edubuntu's going to be the best we've had yet. Huge speed, security, and functional improvements, plus Francis from Mille XTerm has brought forward some ideas that have allowed us to add some basic multi-server load balancing features into LTSP. Very big news, indeed.<br /><br />Finally, we've already been making use of PPA's (Personal Package Archives) in Launchpad to distribute updated docs pre string-freeze for the Edubuntu handbook.<br /><br />Busy, busy.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-40659501661656060502007-06-20T13:05:00.000-05:002007-06-20T13:19:25.489-05:00<span style="font-size:130%;">LTSP Improvements<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">As Ollie <a href="http://www.grawert.net/weblog.cgi/2007/06/20#2007-0620_17:54:20_LTSP_is_dead,_long_live_LTSP">blogged</a>, we've been busy little beavers in LTSP-land.<br /><br />Vagrant Cascadian and Ollie pulled a nice little rabbit out of their hats with the move to NBD for the home drive. It was a lot of work, but thanks to LTSP's plugin system, only took them a few days to get going. Nice.<br /><br />The LTSP Display Manager runs locally, and as such, might be running on some fairly low-end hardware. It was written in Python before, and although I'm a big fan of Python, it's probably not the best choice for a Pentium 75 with 32 megs of ram. As well, Gideon Romm's excellent suggestion on how to integrate secure-but-slower X over SSH with insecure-but-faster X the normal way within the display manager was enough to make us decide that LDM needed a C rewrite. So off we went. Two weeks later, we've got something to crow about.<br /><br />After we get the speed improvements put to bed, we need to attack the Virtual HAL devices, and, a burning issue for me at work here, Palm support.<br /><br />We're making good progress on the specs, and we should have some nice things to show off for Gutsy.<br /><br />To re-iterate Ollie's plea: if you're running an LTSP network, give Gutsy a try. We LOVE feedback.<br /><br />Scott<br /></span></span>Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-46815645387726626472007-03-28T10:42:00.000-05:002007-03-28T11:11:24.906-05:00<h1><span style="font-size:130%;">5 great new features in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Edubuntu</span></span></h1><p>Now that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Feisty's</span> reached beta, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">everyone's</span> blogging about all the great new features. Things like Migration assistant, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Jamendo</span> support in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Rhythmbox</span>, etc.</p><p>But what about that <b>other</b> great <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">distro</span>? The plucky little <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">distro</span> that's taking the classrooms by storm, <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Edubuntu</span></a>, has some great new features as well. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Checkitout</span>:</p><ol><br /><li><b>Much improved thin client sound:</b> Ollie's been working his magic, and has ironed out a lot of the problems associated with sound on thin clients. A huge win for classrooms.</li><br /><li><b>Better documentation:</b> Thanks to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Edubuntu</span> doc team, we've now got more comprehensive docs on maintaining your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Edubuntu</span> network. Still more to do, but it's come a long way.</li><br /><li><b><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Edubuntu</span> is now on 2 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">CD's</span>:</b> At first blush, this seems to go <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">against</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Ubuntu's</span> "one CD" philosophy, but the payoff is huge. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Edubuntu's</span> being deployed in areas of the world where Internet access is slow, if it's available at all. Most software is handled by sharing <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">CD's</span> between people. Having <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Edubuntu</span> on 2 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">CD's</span> means that more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">langpacks</span> can be included, for a better "out-of-the-box" experience for people around the world.</li><br /><li><b>Thin Client Manager:</b> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">cbx</span>33's put in a lot of work on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">TCM</span>, and it's now a great way to manage your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">LTSP</span> thin client network. Which, as an added bonus, comes already configured on an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Edubuntu</span> server!</li><br /><li><b>Updated educational content:</b> The latest versions of such great programs as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">GCompris</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">KStars</span>, etc. makes for a complete classroom experience! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">C'mon</span> educators, check us out!</li><br /></ol><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Edubuntu</span>: "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Y'know</span>, it's for the kids"Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-84515321105416830342006-11-28T13:10:00.000-06:002006-11-28T13:20:36.786-06:00<span style="font-size:130%;">Evince/Forms</span><br /><br />I notice what appears to be a Google SoC project, namely, <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Forms">Evince/Forms</a>. I'm <span style="font-weight: bold;">really</span> hoping this makes it into mainline Evince, and by extention, Ubuntu. For government agencies, where I work, fill in PDF forms are becoming the lingua franca for dealing with City and Federal governments. Having top-tier fill in forms support within evince itself means I can drop <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/graphics/flpsed">flpsed.</a>Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-1163116861752461612006-11-09T18:01:00.000-06:002006-11-11T06:51:18.532-06:00Thin client: it's what's for your desktop!<br /><p>The LTSP, Edubuntu, and K12LTSP teams (ogra, jammcq, moquist, dtrask, eharrison, RichEd, sbalneav, bricode, mezcalero, Lennart, and the whole GStreamer team!) have had a busy day.</p><p><br /><a href="https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/edgy-plusone-thinclient-sound">Thin client sound</a>, <a href="https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ltsp-local-apps">local apps</a>, and <a href="https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ltsp-fat-clients">fat clients</a> have all had good spec sessions today. Expect more goodness from <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org">Edubuntu</a> and <a href="http://www.ltsp.org">LTSP</a>!</p>Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37383119.post-1163036573762923822006-11-08T19:35:00.000-06:002006-11-11T06:51:17.916-06:00<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5237/4198/1600/CIMG1200.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5237/4198/320/CIMG1200.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Well, here we are, in beautiful California. Managed to sneak away from the UDS conference last night, and took the LTSP/Edubuntu crowd out to San Francisco. Not bad for a night shot.<br /></div><br />Speccing's going well. LTSP specs are currently all up to date, and awaiting approval. We should be ready to tackle thin-client-sound, and ltsp-local-apps tomorrow! Hoorah!<br /><br />Welcome to my blog, BTW.Scott Balneaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04281831282650849800noreply@blogger.com0