I built a coupon kiosk at my last job and used xubuntu. I had it start X with an xinitrc set to sleep forever and then start the flash application. X would restart itself if it ever died and there was a watchdog that would restart the app if it died or stopped responding. It was small enough that it could fit compressed on a 512MB SDD with room left for caching videos for playback. It worked well and we had about 200 units deployed by the time I left.
-Hugh On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:13 PM, John D Jones III <[email protected]>wrote: > On 09/18/13 20:08, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I've been asked to help a company that wants to upgrade their kiosk >> network. They're currently running Windows XP but they've also created a >> Web Based UI. >> >> Ideally we just want to present the customer with a fullscreen interface >> and not allow any ability to exit the application without opening the box. >> >> I'm thinking something along the lines of Android or Chrome would be >> suitable for this, I hesitate to recommend any flavor of windows since >> these kiosks are cash accepting and used to load payment cards. >> >> Any recommendations? >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: >> http://plug.org/mailman/**options/plug<http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug> >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> >> I imagine any Linux with selinux enabled or Open/FreeBSD would be a good > choice. OpenBSD has some killer security settings out of the box and is > easy to setup and work with; so far my experience with selinux is it's > difficult to make work, but I'm far from an expert with regard. > </$22.22 Adjusted for inflation> > > -- > John D Jones III > Perl Zealot 4LYF > [email protected] > http://www.zoelife4u.org/ > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: > http://plug.org/mailman/**options/plug<http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug> > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- _________________ www.i-su-root.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
