[vox-tech] Linux Kiosk Distro

[Thomas Johnston]

I will take a look at the freecode site you mentioned.

They kiosk will be used to access the internet. I am not too concerned with
restricting what sites that they visit. Rather, I want to prevent permanent
damage/corruption of the host computer.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Tony Cratz <cratz at hematite.com> wrote:

> On 06/12/2012 05:51 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
> > I was guessing that this would be a common thing and would have a simple
> > tutorial somewhere. And I was thinking that using a major distro like
> > Ubuntu may not be the way to go. Would it not be easier to secure a
> > lightweight distro, because you can add only what functionality you
> > need, rather than remove all the stuff you don't?
>
>         You can start with something like Ubuntu Minimal. And then
>        add only the packages you want. It is very light weight.
>        If you know Debian, think netboot. While it installs everything
>        over the network you end up with a very simple CLI version of
>        Ubuntu which you can build up your OS from there.
>
>        Note Minimal is not a server install.
>
>
>                                                        Tony
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