Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM, White, Jason <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Someone at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens GA gave a presentation on a unix distro developed for managing public machines.  Does anyone remember who gave this presentation or the name of the distro they discussed.
>>     
>
> Amy Begg De Groff and Luis Salazar from the Howard County (Maryland)
> Library, using something Ubuntu-based sold by a vendor called Groovix.
>
> The video of the talk is online here:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2337934137731763201&hl=en
>
> Mark A. Matienzo
> Applications Developer, Digital Experience Group
> The New York Public Library
>   
You may also want to look at the article by Dan Scott and Kevin Beswick 
on "Quick Lookup Laptops in the Library: Leveraging Linux with a SLAX 
LiveCD" in The Code4Lib Journal: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/49

Depending on your technical expertise and available time, I'd also 
recommend looking at LTSP: http://www.ltsp.org/
I know a number of public libraries in New Jersey that are using LTSP 
very successfully with the help of a local computer consulting firm.

Edward