Mark A. Matienzo wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM, White, Jason <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> 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