From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 17:11:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFAB16BD1F for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (hunter.sisis.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020B643D48 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:29:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14672; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:26:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from hermes.sisis.de(193.31.10.38) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xma014666; Thu, 8 Jun 06 17:26:35 +0200 Received: from rebelion.Sisis.de (rebelion.Sisis.de [193.31.10.34]) by hermes.sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25816; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:29:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k58FTGpo012551; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:29:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to m.apitz@oclcpica.org using -f Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:29:16 +0200 From: guru@Sisis.de To: drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org Message-ID: <20060608152916.GA12122@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (i386) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:11:30 -0000 El día Thursday, June 08, 2006 a las 11:16:15AM +0000, drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org escribió: > Hi, > > I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The > system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The > problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the > machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). > > Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or > similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against > arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck > etc.). ... I was once involved running one of our library application in so called 'library buses' which are connected via GPRS and Internet to the central library and the readers of the library could borrow books in the bus at dedicated stations of the tour. Borrowing and book return was made directly in the central database (just for background). The personal in the bus is a mix of driver and librarian without deep system knowhow and so we had the same problem to solve: just powering-off the system before going to next station :-) I tested a self-mastered Knopix-CD, ie enhanced the Knopix-CD with our look&feel and application clients, and so you had a read-only and for ever booting system. Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD project, sure it has to be... matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/