[HLUG] Tuxdedu 2.0

[Tony Sales]

Hi Guys, I have managed to prevent NTFS write permissions on Tuxedu, which will prevent damage on the vast majority of Windows machines running XP, Vista and 7 - the only machines at risk would be ones with FAT32 partitions (Windows 95, 98, ME and some very early XP machines). However I have also experimented with Debian LXDE instead of Lubuntu and this locks absolutely everything down (including USB drives and printers etc) it also produces a much smaller and faster system - without the games it is only 398MB - so it might be easier to make the 'Live and Secure' version using Debian - might even fit on a CD, and use Lubuntu to produce an installable version. I think it will be easier to 'unlock' Debian for USB and Printer access than lock down everything in Lubuntu - as as we are not enabling wireless or providing 3D applications we don't need any drivers that Ubuntu contains but Debian doesn't...

Anyway I will continue to experiment, the Lubuntu version is pretty much ready to go as is (need to check pulseaudio for scratch) and will post a Debian version once I get one running.

Tony.

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From: "Tony Sales" <tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:31 PM
To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] Tuxdedu 2.0

> Hi Guys, I have uploaded a slightly modified version of  Tuxedu to here:
> http://tuxedu.org.uk/iso/ - this has scratch installed (but with no
> sound - requires pulseaudio, and this needs testing) and a fixed launcher
> for pysycache - i still haven't found a way to lock down the hard drive
> ( removing rights to mount FUSE filesystems didn't work) so if anyone has
> any bright ideas let me know (e.g. isolinux arguments or fstab tricks) - I
> can of course just block access to the file manager but this is a bit
> drastic.
>
> So there are three things to do:
>
> Stop read/write access to internal hard drives
>
> Get Scratch working with Alsa, or installing Pulseaudio
>
> Improving performance by stopping unnecessary processes from running at
> boot.
>
> I would appreciate any other feedback on the programs themselves - getting
> children to test them would be good...
> ________________________________________
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Sarah Chard
> [sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk]
> Sent: 27 July 2011 23:29
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Tonights mtg
>
> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 22:29 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> So good to see so many people at tonight's LUG Meeting, 15 in all a
>> record I
>> think, including 2 Herefordshire Council ICT Consultants for with
>> responsibility for Primary and Secondary Education, and one Prospective
>> Parliamentary Candidate for the LibDems .....
>
> just got back in - lots of talk in the carpark afterwards as well!
>
>>
>> The ICT Primary Schools Consultant to Herefordshire Council said he was
>> looking if there was an application for simple animations.
>>
>> Sarah - can you pass this on to him please
>> http://www.pencil-animation.org/
>
>
> yes will do Julian -
>
> hopefully one of the barriers to the success of our schools project has
> been overcome as the council ICT consultants are going to talk to the
> schools & arrange a meeting with Tony & Kevin & the techs responsible
> for the networks in the participating schools so we can liase with them
> and explain about Tuxedu. The support of the ICT consultants will also
> encourage the schools to fully commit to the project.
> Everyone please keep testing tuxedu for Tony (second version is now
> ready for testing - please confirm the location Tony) and give him
> plenty of feedback - we do need to be sure there are no bugs.
>
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> ISFD Sept 17, 2011 - http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is
> Schools Project - http://piratepad.net/V3NK9CQWNt
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