On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:17:15PM -0800, Ricardo Anguiano wrote: > > I don't know that I understand the problem exactly, but what about > something like knoppix on a diskless workstation? > > http://www.knoppix.com/ > > It seems suited to public terminal life.
Well, the boxes have disks, so there's not really any reason to not use them. Not using them causes, I assume, a speed hit. Also, there's just SO much to Knoppix. What DCN/Omsoft wanted (for the Newsbeat kiosk, and I assume also for the Co-Op one), is something with a web browser. Period. Nothing else. :^) There are of course many ways (CDROM + diskless, permissions/ownership hacking, clean-up-after-logout[*], etc.) to make a machine hard to mess with, but to me that's kind of like snipping a wire on your IDE cable instead of using chmod. Sure, it works, but it's more brute force. :^) If something like KDE and Konq can be told "hey, only show web pages, that's it", then why not use it? ... of course, after that web-browser-using-KHTMLPart example during tonight's talk really got me thinking... "Why not just write a web browser?" (Rather than take an existing one and disable 90% of it) :^) -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hire me! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/resume/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
