[frgeek-michiana] Re: Tuesday

  • From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:52:52 -0500

I doubt FGM has any P-II boxes left. We gave ours to Goodwill to reduce inventory before the move.


Tom

Mike Cook wrote:
Looks similar to some of the other approaches I've looked at. I was just looking to get out all the cruft and make something that would both boot fast from CD and be inherently secure (can't compromise what isn't there). My biggest gripe so far is Firefox is so stinkin' huge, but there isn't much else both OS and compatible with nearly all websites. That alone bumps the memory footprint up past where I'd like to see it (Ideally, I would like to use a PII, a VESA graphics card, and 128M or less and still get reasionable performance).
Mike

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:11:39 -0500
Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The link looks a fairly simple solution that could be made to work.

I think the way you get the system to restart after the app shuts down is to 
start the xserver running an application instead of a display manager. You can 
do the same thing in Windows if you set your shell to a program other than 
explorer.exe.

Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Tuesday
From: chuq00@xxxxxxxxx
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:15:50 -0500

I came across this link for Kiosks 
http://alain.coron.free.fr/WCUFreeInternetAccess/index.html I know that 3BTech 
uses knoppix kiosks at their store for looking up products on their website. 
You are able to go to other websites, but you cannot access the rest of the 
system. Also if you close seamonkey or firefox (whichever one they are using) 
it actually reboots the system. (can be a good and a bad thing) But that maybe 
be an option for doing kiosks. That link has detailed instructions on how the 
guy remastered Knoppix for 2003 World Congress on Ultrasonics. So it may be a 
good viable solution.
Maybe Marc could get the info or something about the solution that they used at 
3Btech.

Chuq

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:37 -0500, Mike Cook wrote:

I have been working on doing that for kiosks. All of the kiosk distros out there try to do more than we need and are not well optimized for ruining from read only media.
Mike


-----Original Message----- From: Phil Goldbach Sent: Jan 18, 2010 10:43 PM To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Tuesday




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That does bring me to a question for all you Linux gurus out there: Has it ever been thought of or taken into consideration of making a custom Linux distro made by Free Geek?


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