[dot] Australian high school reuses old PCs with Linux, KDE

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From: canllaith <>
Dept: k-stands-for-kwality
Date: Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @04:01

Australian high school reuses old PCs with Linux, KDE
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   A secondary school in Melbourne, Australia, is using KDE on Kubuntu
[http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;609377314;pp;1], with
KDE's own Kiosk tool [http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool/] to lock
down its library workstations. Implementing a kiosk mode Kubuntu setup
allowed Westall Secondary School to save money, exact greater control
over security measures, and extend the life of older and previously
abandoned hardware without sacrificing performance. The school's IT
support manager said the Kiosk admin tool was chosen as there was not
enough flexibility with GNOME to allow "decent" lockdown. He was also
surprised to discover that Kubuntu desktops ran some applications faster
on Linux than when they ran on Windows.