kiosk

[Brad Midgley]

Hans,

I don't see any details about the kiosk system except that it boots from 
a dvd.

For multihead, groovix is using standard patches from the linuxconsole 
project. FWIW, they have released their scripts for assigning/tracking 
monitor/kbd/mouse assignments under some kind of open license. They 
weren't really required to do that.

Brad

Hans Fugal wrote:
> I ended up figuring out how to kiosk-ize firefox and installed Debian
> and used a tightened FVWM as the WM. We don't need a multihead solution.
> But, I'd really like to see how groovix is doing their kiosk - did they
> open source the kiosk part at all? I can't see it. I would imagine it
> would be hard to avoid not doing so since it's based on Debian and
> Firefox.
> 
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 at 08:28 -0600, Brad Midgley wrote:
> 
>>Hans,
>>
>>It may not fit what you're doing, but true multihead could be a good 
>>kiosk solution in some setups. I admit it would work even better in a 
>>library or school where it can really scale up.
>>
>>There's even one commercial vendor now, but it's a great hobby project too
>>
>>http://groovix.com/kiosk.html
>>
>>Brad
>>
>>Hans Fugal wrote:
>>
>>>With all the firewall/router distros out there, it seems there ought to
>>>be a kiosk distro: stick in a CD and half an hour later you have a kiosk
>>>(or perhaps better, a boot-from-cd kiosk distro).
>>>
>>>Google is turning up a bunch of old links that describe complicated ways
>>>to set up kiosks. Does anyone know if there is a distro like this
>>>lying around? 
>>>
>>>What have you done for kiosks?
>>>
>>>
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