On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:20:14 +0530, "Chetan S" cshring@gmail.com wrote:
- Check which applications need to be moved on priority to Linux.
Really nice line of thought - I mean systematic and practcal approach. But you have missed one major point .. Wine will also execute viruses and other alwares just fine.. :-(
True. However thats where Linux shines. Even if Wine runs in admin mode, it runs within normal user domain of Linux.
What about floppy disks/thumb drives ?
More the number of stones better the chance of refining the approach.
yep
In virus / malware case the main Linux machine remains safe since wine is run in user mode. This can later be taken a step ahead by "cleaning" the wine enviro when a user quits the system. Essentially a kiosk mode.
easy ?
So here is possible steps for a cafe login :
- Create a temp home dir for the cafe user when he/she logs in with
default template applications ( a la' /etc/skel ) 2. Let the user install / play / whatever and bork the home as much he/she wishes. 3. When he / she logs out clean the temp home dir. 4. Profit ?
you mean everytime he logs in ? wont that be a lil slow ? what about registered users ? they will want permanant home dirs..
If this needs to go even further let the linux image run under qemu,
not feasible.
essentially sandboxing the environment. :D But by this point am more on the visions than implementations !
Back to virii, there are quite a few instances of viruses which detect and do not run under wine :)
But we dont chose the virii. =====
A better solution to all this is to build a good Distro with server and client variations: There is a IE theme for Firefox. And KDE can have a mock-XP theme. A cyber cafe manager can run instead of KDM/GDM .. integrated into the authentication and session manager LDAP service of the server. The server can also have an LDAP integrated Kiosk manager.
The first kiosk can have a very simple startup page - instead of the normal desktop - it should have regular tasks that a cyber cafe user will do .. have buttons like "Firefox" .. I will put some mock-screens up and post the url.