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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a9282b --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/control @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Source: desktop-session-autoloader +Section: misc +Priority: optional +Maintainer: Debian Edu Packaging Team <debian-edu-pkg-team@lists.alioth.debian.org> +Uploaders: + Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>, +Standards-Version: 4.1.3 +Build-Depends: + debhelper (>= 11), + cdbs, +Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-edu/pkg-team/desktop-session-autoloader.git +Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-edu/pkg-team/desktop-session-autoloader.git +Homepage: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-edu/pkg-team/desktop-session-autoloader/README.md + +Package: desktop-session-autoloader +Architecture: all +Depends: + ${misc:Depends}, +Suggests: +Description: Accelerate Diskless Workstation systems by pre-loading a dummy Desktop Session + This package is for diskless Linux clients as you often find them in + school class rooms running an LTSP based fat client environment. + . + The logon into and the initial session startup on such diskless + workstations can be considerably slow, because all applications need to + be fetch from one server hosting the fat clients' filesystem. + . + The situation gets worse, if 24 computers in the same class room get + switched on simultaneously or the teacher tells the students to open the + same application (e.g. Libreoffice) at the same time. + . + However, this issue only occurs to the first student using a diskless + workstation that day. Other students see all applications launch within + a fraction of a second. + . + Reason: once an application has been launched, it ends up in the + diskless machine's filesystem cache in RAM. + . + This package, thus, pre-loads a desktop session of the admins choice and + some popular applications. It does it before 7:30 in the morning only. + So, combine this package with Wake-On-LAN to make sure systems are up + and the desktop session has been autoloaded (and quit) already before + the first students come into the class room. |