Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:22:07 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com> To: "Matthias Apitz" <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk Message-ID: <df9ac37c0606081122g7fd49d83l1c39c8e117a266f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060608152916.GA12122@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606081058070.24091@droog.sdf-eu.org> <20060608152916.GA12122@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On 6/8/06, guru@sisis.de <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--
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