hi Sidney, Thanks for the idea. I don't want to use a live CD because of its impact on the RAM. We want to show people that GNU-Linux is top-shelf software, so we don't want it to be slow.
I am currently in the process of experimenting with some kiosk installs, such as these: http://tuxdiary.com/2014/11/05/linux-distros-for-kiosks/ Thanks! On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Sidney McCoy <sidney.mc...@usa.net> wrote: > What an awesome venture, how kind of you to donate the PCs, and thank you > for posting about it. > > Was just curious, if the goal may be to secure the computers to prohibit > writing to the file system, why not remove the HDD altogether and maximize > RAM for possibly a RAM disk - then couldn't you boot from Live CD and run > the OS in a truly read-only environment? Any writes to a RAM disk are > gone at restart, and obviously the CD cannot be written to either. > > Just a thought - let folks know how all turns out. > > > > Thanks..... > > > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:48:23 -0700 > From: Christian Einfeldt <einfe...@gmail.com> > To: Ubuntu US California <ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Locking down Ubuntu 14.04 Unity > > Hi, > > I am donating two Ubuntu 14.04 machines to a homeless shelter. The shelter > would like to prevent the residents from writing any documents to the hard > drive. The shelter wants to have residents download stuff to flash drives > they are giving the residents. Googling, I find nothing directly on > point. Any help is welcome. > > I did find this > > http://forums.linuxvoice.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=147 > > Which talks about locking down the user settings, but it does not prevent > writing to the hard drive. > > Thanks! > > -- > Christian Einfeldt > > -- Christian Einfeldt
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