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The Universal School Desktop

or how the future is being 'Windows Proofed'

The one thing that you really need when teaching something to a group of children, students, adults, whoever, is to ensure that they are 'singing from the same hymn sheet'. Put less metaphorically, they all need to be accessing the same text book or work sheet during the lesson. If not chaos is sure to follow. Any teacher who has blith [...]

Howto: Install a frontend on your Server with NX

This howto will explain to you how to install a frontend on your server which is accessible via NX. This tutorial is for Debian based systems, and has been tested on an Flosoft.biz FlexServ (RPS).

1. Check the basic Debian setup.

We need to modify the sources.list

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following 2 lines:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

Close and save (:wq) and run this command to update:

apt-get update

Then check if your system is up to date, and if necessary install updates.

apt-get dist-upgrade

2. Installing the X window manager xorg.

Just type in:

Utiliser Seahorse à la place de ssh-agent et gnupg-agent sous Debian

Seahorse est un programme qui remplit trois rôles :

  • Gestionnaire de clés (à la fois clés ssh et clés de chiffrement GPG) 
  • Agent de cache pour les clés ssh ;
  • Agent de cache pour les clés gnupg-agent.

Si l’utilisation de Seahorse dans les deux premiers rôles ne pose aucun problème avec la distribution Debian (sid du 22 mai 2007), il faut faire un peu d’efforts pour la 3e utilisation.