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Old 15th May 2008
xiphias xiphias is offline
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I would run firefox directly on top of X with no window manager. I would write a script and set up inittab so X and firefox respawn when firefox closes or crashes. The script would probably wipe out the firefox profile directory so users can clear there private data simply by closing the browser. Firefox would run as a limited user, not root, so something like this: `su - nobody -c /usr/bin/firefox` would appear in the script.

Depending on the number of machines I might also be tempted to set up a local repository for updates, and have the kiosk machines update using the local repository on boot up.

I would choose either Arch or Slackware for such a project.
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