<![CDATA[Some moments from yesterday’s installation.]]>Some moments from yesterday’s installation.
The clients are Debian Linux, and the server is FreeBSD.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4ea061ca-9eb9-4282-9df6-2fd18ac4ed80/some-moments-from-yesterday-s-installation.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 01:46:51 GMTTue, 12 May 2026 10:19:01 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:47 GMT]]>@jhx it definitely is!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116562976293577354https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116562976293577354Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 17:47:34 GMT]]>@stefano
Debian and FreeBSD is a fantastic combo!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/jhx/statuses/116562857433785820https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/jhx/statuses/116562857433785820Tue, 12 May 2026 17:47:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 16:16:33 GMT]]>@nabeards @mms thanks. No, I haven't documented it as it's a solution I'm selling and a part is proprietary.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116562499597427741https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116562499597427741Tue, 12 May 2026 16:16:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 14:42:04 GMT]]>@stefano @mms this is a really cool setup! Sounds perfect for a public library. Do you have it documented somewhere? I’d like to get something like that going here (Costa Rica).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/nabeards/statuses/116562128019100309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/nabeards/statuses/116562128019100309Tue, 12 May 2026 14:42:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 10:29:15 GMT]]>@stefano Sweet!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/mms/statuses/116561133903610349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/mms/statuses/116561133903610349Tue, 12 May 2026 10:29:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 10:28:52 GMT]]>@mms the client is a public office. This is an aggregation room for young people, and those PCs will be used by them.
It's a custom setup (I developed almost 20 years ago, always updated) to give a sort of "kiosk mode". The PCs will boot to a welcome, login screen (actually a web page) and, after the login, the login/auth server (FreeBSD) will authorise the session, giving a command to those PCs to launch a dockerized X11 session. The Mikrotik router will also receive a command to create an "accept" rule and authorise that PC to navigate. People can use the PCs for a specific amount of time every day. After that time, the session will be closed and the docker container will be discarded.

Upgrading the PCs is also simple: I just push the entire docker env to the private docker registry and the pcs will download it every 24 hours (or after booting).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116561132432344553https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116561132432344553Tue, 12 May 2026 10:28:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some moments from yesterday’s installation. on Tue, 12 May 2026 10:23:50 GMT]]>@stefano What does this company do?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/mms/statuses/116561112630667889https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/mms/statuses/116561112630667889Tue, 12 May 2026 10:23:50 GMT