[Kde-kiosk] Easy Open Source Internet-kiosk for a laptop machine?

[Chris Mason]

I want to do the same for a single stand alone machine with no server
present, in a bar where tourists are given to destroying the setup in days.
Can you suggest the easiest solution. My preference would be to have a full
screen firefox browser with no way to see anything else.

Chris Mason
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Verner Kjærsgaard [mailto:vk at os-academy.dk] 
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 7:48 AM
> To: kde-kiosk at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [Kde-kiosk] Easy Open Source Internet-kiosk for 
> a laptop machine?
> 
> 
> Fredag 10 december 2004 12:11 skrev Otto Kekäläinen:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm setting up a few laptop machines as Internet-kiosks for 
> a small café.
> > The machines should run 100% Open Source (and be proud of it :)).
> >
> > Any ideas where I could find a fairly complete software project?
> >
> > I'd rather not spend too much time tweaking it.. The first 
> machine is a IBM
> > thinkpad with 128 MB RAM, 500 MHz P3 processor and wlan.
> >
> > I want a system that is:
> > -fast and easy to use for the customer
> > -secure and reliable (needs minimal administration)
> > -www-browsing is the primary use, and Open Source software 
> demos would be a
> > nice addition
> >
> >
> > I was thinking of a Debian system installed from some 
> live-cd with good
> > hardware detection + kde-kiosk, but is that really optimal 
> considering the
> > overhead KDE/XFree86 needs and the slow bootup Debian has?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in my openion, you should not install any or nearly no sw on 
> the laptops at 
> all (!)
> - if you need to, boot from the hd (any small, quick linux 
> will do), modif 
> your /etc/inittab into querying your XDMCP server which then 
> will give you 
> your standard login to KDE or whatever. This way the 
> resources are needed on 
> one big machine (1 CPU, 2G mem) - and you've got one to maintain.
> 
> - this setup is quite possible to do in a day or so. And all 
> (kiosk) tweaking 
> is done at one and only one place; your central server.
> 
> - I've done this a few times(schools), it works like a breeze.
> 
> (in etc/inittab do: "1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/X :0 -query 
> IP_OF_YOUR_SERVER")
> Setup your server to allow XDMCP access. Do that (SuSE) 
> in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and 
> /etc/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/rckdm
> 
> best regards,
> 
> 
> 
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