RE: Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp uter literate'

["Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Some info on creating a Firefox Kiosk mode browser
http://tobias.olrato.de/archives/000117.html


I've found a couple of direct to browser LiveCD distros that I'm going to
look at to give me some ideas

Bootbox is based on a Knoppix Live CD
http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/LinuxKiosk
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boothbox

and
firefox LiveCD
http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/distribucions/distribucions-live-cd/livecd.net/

info on creating a custom LiveCD using Gentoo
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1708294

Ideally I'd modify a LiveCD or flash based distro and setup bookmarks and
possibly even passwords so that it is as easy to use as possible.

Of course it could be based on any OS  but I've played with the hassle of
setting up Windows in kiosk mode on PCs in the past and it was pig of a job
locking everything down, and keeping it working.

For the low spec machine I'm considering I think Linux is the way to go.

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Ryley [mailto:simon.ryley@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 May 2005 15:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp
uter literate'

How about setting the machine to run a simple Live CD from this site?
http://tinyurl.com/23nmq

I've only had a quick browse, by chance I found the site through this
Guardian Online article earlier today. http://tinyurl.com/dzbak

Simon



Ward, David wrote:

> And if I can get a screensaver to cycle through preloaded pictures
and/or
> specific flikr content I could package it up in a nice frame like
Quinten.
> (The keyboard could prolly be repackaged or replaced with a small
external
> one)
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> It'd make a nice present and also a good excuse for fiddling with the
> laptop
> and Linux instead of the other jobs on the list....
>
> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Lidstone [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 May 2005 13:49
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp
> uter
> literate'
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@s...>
wrote:
> > Interesting idea, particularly if I can lock it down so that I
don't get
> > panicy phone calls saying that email's gone away and it's broken.
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> > If it's running in ram disk and booting from a CD/HDD/CF card it
> should be
> > pretty robust
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> Also forgot to add finishing touch: use kiosk mode on the browser...
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> Patrick
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