On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:03:22AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Friday, 17 בFebruary 2006 21:38, Omer Zak wrote: > > In another Linux related mailing list, to which I am subscribed, > > there is a discussion about the remaining roadblocks on the route of > > widespread adoption of Linux by businesses. > > > Turns out that IE has configuration options, which allow the sysadmin > > to lock down various features. > > KDE offered for quite some time a system called "Kiosk" which allows an > administrator to "lock down" certain features of KDE - which includs > desktop settings and application settings - including Konqueror. > > GNOME 2.14 will come out with a similar tool (whose name escapes me > atm), and I assume it will allow you to do the same for a GNOME browser > (which is what currently ? Epiphany ? My Mandriva installation runs > firefox when needing a browser in GNOME).
This naturally assumes that the user does not install a private copy of the app. Which is a bit tougher in the case of firefox. And frankly even in the case of OpenOffice. Both are rather self-contained. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
