Very well built Web Kiosk distro w/ Porteus Linux

[Scott Sullivan]

So, while working as part of the volunteer IT team for a local 
convention the need for a Web Kiosk came up. Now this is not a difficult 
project and you can spend an afternoon sorting something that meets 
basic needs. But knowing that it's been done dozens of times I actually 
spent some looking for something done 'well'.

What I found was Porteus Linux, Kiosk Edition.

http://build.porteus.org/kiosk/

They have an online configuration system that will build a bootable iso 
tailored to your needs and covers a lot of security scenarios. They 
support hardware all the way back to i486, even to the point of having a 
correct version of flash to handle the lack of SSE instructions.

If you build the iso in hybrid mode, it's ready to dd directly to a 
machines disk. It was a very well put together process and takes care of 
a lot of the holes a DYI job will leave.

Well worth a look when you find yourself in need for this. My build 
choices was only came 54MB in size.

-- 
Scott Sullivan
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