The last link that Alex sent looks like just about perfect:
http://www.alandmoore.com/blog/2011/11/05/creating-a-kiosk-with-linux-and-x11-2011-edition/
The blogger seems to make the same point that Tony did: instead of worrying
about an absolute lock down, periodically copy all your default
profi
On 06/12/2012 06:00 PM, Tony Cratz wrote:
> On 06/12/2012 05:58 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
>> 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
On 06/12/2012 05:58 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
> 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 comp
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 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 c
On 06/12/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
> 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, bu
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 re
On 06/12/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
> 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, bu
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
on
To follow up-- My wife loaned me her external web cam. But I found there
doesn't seem to be any way to tell the application which camera to use. In
the process of testing I found that the image in google talk was right side
up using the built-in camera (with the patched driver). I hadn't tried it
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