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?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Alex Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 06/12/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:<br>
> A friend of mine asked me if I could help him with a project: building an<br>
> internet kiosk machine running some flavor of Linux. The computer is to be<br>
> used by the public in his volunteer organization. I said I have no real<br>
> exerience with that, but I would give it a shot. I have done some searching<br>
> online and it looks like there are many ways to go about the project but I<br>
> thought I would solicit advice from Lugod before getting too far into it. I<br>
> noticed that there are several hundred posts regarding "kiosks" on vox-tech.<br>
><br>
> Some requirements/desires:<br>
> It needs to be free, or very close to free.<br>
> We would like users to have web browser access and that's it. The web<br>
> browswer should have Active X support (I am leaning towards Chromium)<br>
> If the user could be presented with a fullscreen browser and nothing else,<br>
> that would be great.<br>
> Requires little to no maintenance.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The computer itself is actually pretty nice, a Dell Dimension 9100. I<br>
> haven't played with the machine to verify that it is still in its original<br>
> form, but Dell Service Tag (9D7D881) says it has the following specs:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/Index?c=us&s=dhs&cs=19&l=en&t=system" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/Index?c=us&s=dhs&cs=19&l=en&t=system</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Any advice on what distribution to use, tutorials to follow, etc. would be<br>
> greatly appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance,<br>
><br>
> thomas<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>Unless I've missed something ActiveX doesn't work on non-Windows<br>
machines as it requires a IE install, even if using the Chrome IE<br>
emulator thing.<br>
<br>
This topic has come up before and I want to say that Firefox has a kiosk<br>
mode maybe?<br>
<br>
Any of the major distros should be usable for such a mode, you'll<br>
probably be interested in the Ubuntu automatic security updates feature<br>
which will keep the security patches going without need for you to do<br>
anything. The only ones that require a person are kernel updates, but if<br>
you cron schedule reboots that might take care of it too.<br>
<br>
Enjoy,<br>
Alex<br>
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