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After digging around a little more, I found vncrec, which works really well. Quality is good, computer doesn't lag while making the movie,... One major problem: the output format. Nobody can play these files, except if he/she got vncrec installed, which is *nix only.
It should be possible to convert .vnc files to some other format (video) using transcode. I tried this, but when playing the ouput file using mplayer (xvid encoded), I only get green and red noise. Not everyone got an xvid codec installed too, so I might want to use mpeg2 here or something alike. If only I would get a real video, and not just noise...
Transcoding a vnc file takes a lot of time too.

I'll keep you guys posted :-)

Could anyone please tell me how I can make a screencast in X? Istanbul doesn't work (segfaults and other errors), vnc2swf produces flash files, which I don't like, xvidcap doesn't want to compile,...

I'd really need to be able to create a little movie to convince some people @ university Linux is not all about command line magic like su, sudo, mount -t smbfs -o username=foobar //server/share /mnt/foobar and other 19[89]X commands...

I could use Istanbul's Gstreamer pipelines in some small application, but there's one major problem: ximagesrc's image quality is terrible.

Check it out here.

One major question: how well will it work for people exploring the web using a non-IE based browser?

Because the development of fedora stateless is quite frozen, we decided to drop it just an hour ago. We discussed a new strategy and have chosen for Ubuntu Kickstart. Kickstart, the automatic (recorded) installer for Fedora or SuSE is now ported to Ubuntu too since version 5.04 Hoary. We'll set up a PXE-boot enabled server wich will let the clients choose between windows or Linux, or just install Linux when we want it. Normally we should recieve new hardware next week, so the project will be kickstarted too ;-)

Typing this using one hand, as I was so stupid to dislocate my left wrist last saturday night. At least, I hope it's only dislocated, and not broken. And yes, it does hurt.
I might get a picture later.
Got some GIM design drawings completed lately, but only on paper, I need to dia'ize them (which won't be an easy job now). I hope I'll be able to show some of the work soon.