[SlugBug] Linux supports political freedom in Sheffield...

[Alan Dawson]

At the Anti-G8 sheffield indymedia centre ( http://sheffield.dissent.org.uk ) 
The media centre is running 10 pc's  as thin clients in a Linux terminal server
setup ( http://www.ltsp.org ).

The server is a 1ghz Hp netserver with 1.25gb ram, rescued from a skip!  It's
running Debian Linux (testing) with an encrypted root filesystem ( see
http://linuxfromscratch.org/~devine/erfs-howto.html  for how this is set up )

The clients are PII 400 Mhz with 100 mbit nics... they don't require local
disks, and boot from a floppy disks.

There are some pictures
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/06/313617.html

you can see the netserver in this one
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/images/2005/06/313621.jpg


There is a open wireless network provided by a Linksys wrt54gs running openwrt
(http://www.openwrt.org ) again.. this is running Linux again. 

If anyboody would like to come down and help out .. please do.. It would be neat
to set up some local apps on the thin clients, providing support for local usb
devices would be nice.

AED
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