Smartboard software on LTSP fat clients

Interactive whiteboards like Smartboards are becoming more and more common in classrooms and there are also quite a few linux users using them. As we do a lot of work with Ubuntu LTSP based fat clients, I needed to find a way to get the Smartboard software installed...

Ubuntu in education in Finland

Belinda Lopez asked about Ubuntu adoption in schools and what one would expect from Canonical in this sector: http://dindafoss.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/ubuntu-in-education/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2010-August/006389.html As I’m working...

Itch for better user management in Ubuntu

There are a lot of tools for managing users in linux system. A lot of them. And judging by the number of Launchpad blueprints around the topic, there is also a lot of interest to improve Ubuntu’s user management infrastructure. Here at Opinsys we’ve been...

User management with SSSD on shared laptops

A few months ago we had a blog entry about shared and personal laptops in schools. The goal of shared laptops is basically that they should behave mostly like shared thin clients: it should not matter which a computer any user chooses to work with. He should simply be...