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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