From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 21:30:45 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 C735216C232 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 18:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E454243D53 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 18:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so496625nzn for ; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:22:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B2f3u4CTy3b5BdGzq3L8T/jA0h0H1c0pEeGIRsd0tpvOrgFboQd/LNVTynNLjFRPEOxZQLHX31S5WZTH3jAw77vuFt+7A9e45f3RBbqIBvZ/OW6Ow04hOlFGlVFHinXVQ4POwjhrGQRGqHT39ywZsEtb3xaHM7sOrCl4WiOvPic= Received: by 10.64.181.19 with SMTP id d19mr2096568qbf; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.151.6 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:22:07 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" To: "Matthias Apitz" In-Reply-To: <20060608152916.GA12122@rebelion.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060608152916.GA12122@rebelion.Sisis.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:30:46 -0000 On 6/8/06, guru@sisis.de wrote: > El d=EDa Thursday, June 08, 2006 a las 11:16:15AM +0000, drseuk@droog.sdf= -eu.org escribi=F3: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. Th= e > > 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 o= r > > similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against > > arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck > > etc.). > Google for 'KDE Kiosk". There is at at least one project I used two years ago to completely lock down a FreeBSD box using KDE and Firefox (firebird at the time, I think) You shouldn't have power-off issues if you never write data to the drive, kind of tricky unless you make it a near-disktless system that runs firefox off a network drive. > > Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD > project, sure it has to be... > FreeSBIE 2 is nearing release. --=20 -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--