[vox-tech] Linux Kiosk Distro

[Thomas Johnston]

A friend of mine asked me if I could help him with a project: building an
internet kiosk machine running some flavor of Linux. The computer is to be
used by the public in his volunteer organization. I said I have no real
exerience with that, but I would give it a shot. I have done some searching
online and it looks like there are many ways to go about the project but I
thought I would solicit advice from Lugod before getting too far into it. I
noticed that there are several hundred posts regarding "kiosks" on vox-tech.

Some requirements/desires:
It needs to be free, or very close to free.
We would like users to have web browser access and that's it. The web
browswer should have Active X support (I am leaning towards Chromium)
If the user could be presented with a fullscreen browser and nothing else,
that would be great.
Requires little to no maintenance.


The computer itself is actually pretty nice, a Dell Dimension 9100. I
haven't played with the machine to verify that it is still in its original
form, but Dell Service Tag (9D7D881) says it has the following specs:

http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/Index?c=us&s=dhs&cs=19&l=en&t=system



Any advice on what distribution to use, tutorials to follow, etc. would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

thomas
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