[frgeek-michiana] Re: Kiosk computers and WebKit
- From: Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:02:52 -0800 (PST)
So far, I've downloaded the SliTaz ISO, burned it to a disk, and to test it,
put the disk into my laptop (Dell Inspirion 8200, P4 1.9 GHz processor, 768
RAM). My laptop is quite capable of running SliTaz, but it was just a test to
see if the copy was good. While it may be like Puppy Linux in that it loads
into RAM, it looks a bit like Vector. I didn't mess with any further than that,
but I plan on doing some more fiddling with it later tonight. It does boot up
rather quick and from what I can tell, this looks very viable for a kiosk OS.
I'll look into the "Slitaz Loram flavor", since that only requires 64 MB of
RAM, and if we can install that for kiosk usage, then I'd definitely put my
vote forward for using it.
I do realize however, our priority is FreeBoxes, so I will focus more on the
machines that require further testing first.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Kiosk computers and WebKit
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4:37 PM
Quoted from the SliTaz website:
"SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on i486 or x86 Intel compatible
processors. A minimum 256MB of memory is recommended to use the main LiveCD.
64MB is needed for the "slitaz-loram" flavor and 16MB for the
"slitaz-loram-cdrom" flavor.
With the slitaz-loram flavor, the system is less responsive, but allows you to
graphically install SliTaz on very old machines. Once installed, SliTaz works
well with a minimum of 16MB memory, but forget about using Firefox to surf the
web - you'll have to use the text based 'links' for example."
So this could very well work for our kiosks. I think I may download it and
check it out, but I think we should be able to make it work. We already have 3
(I think) systems that can be used for kiosks since they've been difficult or
are too low for FreeBoxes. Perhaps in addition to the FTs (further testing),
I'll give this a shot on Tuesday as well.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Fri, 1/22/10, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Kiosk computers and WebKit
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 10:42 AM
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p{margin:0px;}Thanks, I haven't looked at SliTaz for a while. Last time I
looked it needed 64M of memory to boot and they recommended 256M. It is similar
to Puppy Linux in that it runs in RAM. I noticed that they have some excellent
Docs though. Definitely worth looking at some
more.
http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/index.html
http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/scratchbook/
Thanks,
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: chuq jackels
Sent: Jan 22, 2010 7:54 AM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Kiosk computers and WebKit
and here is a link to a guys post that created a kiosk with
slitaz http://community.slitaz.org/node/74
Sent from South Bend, Indiana, United States
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home hehe
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:44 AM, chuq jackels <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here is a really fast small distro that we could use to build the kiosk
on. http://www.slitaz.org/en/ 30mb.. w/ gui
Sent from Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, very interesting. Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Germano
Sent: Jan 20, 2010 10:57 AM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Kiosk computers and WebKit
Mike, I thought you especially might find this interesting.
One of the main ports of WebKit is the GTK+
(http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingGtk) version. On their Hacker's guide to
WebKit/GTK+ (http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/HackingGtk) page, it mentions that it
has been tested with both X11 and DirectFB(!!) windowing systems. I think this
means we can have a web browser that doesn't require a running x server, which
would be perfect for a kiosk.
I found this page
(http://nanl.de/blog/2009/10/gtk2-running-on-top-of-directfb-on-openwrt/) where
someone was testing GTK apps, though not WebKit, running on ARM and MIPS
processors with limited amounts of RAM using DirectFB rendering and comparing
it to Xorg rendering on the same hardware. The results look promising :)
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