Hi Tim,
Totally ignoring your want to use Debian... :)
I've not got any Linux kiosks running in the wild yet, but I keep
meaning to make one to replace a Windows machine...
I found Porteus Kiosk a while ago and have been meaning to try it:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/
So when I read your message I decided to download and install Porteus
Kiosk to give it a go. It does seem fairly simple. There's quite a few
options, but it seems easy to set it up to only allow access to one web
site so I think it'll do what you want.
The installer creates a text configuration file. You might want to get a
separate USB stick ready to store the configuration file on, so you can
edit/re-install with it at a later date.
You can install it to a hard disk, possibly to a USB stick although I
haven't tried that. If you want the kiosk browser machine to be running
for a long time (eg. on all day for many years) then you might want to
use an SSD rather than a hard disk, just because hard disks have a
tendency to suffer mechanical failure. I suspect Porteus doesn't write
to the disk at all after it's booted, but I haven't actually checked
that yet.
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