Firefox Kiosk

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Wed, 2006-04-10 at 14:18 -0400, Mathieu Avoine wrote:

> Ubuntu also is offered in the form of a live CD and I believe (others
> may confirm) that it comes with Firefox.
>  The only show stopper I foresee is auto-detection of the network
> connection upon boot... The station is hooked up to a DSL, cable or
> LAN? 

Yes, the Ubuntu Live CD comes with Firefox. Dut depending on the amount
of ram of these stations, this may or may not be a practical solution.

> ps: en passant, un salut tout spécial à nos combattants du logiciel
> libre de la région de l'abitibi ;-)
>  

Je suis un ex-abitibien (ne a Val d'Or); C'est le fun de voir que Linux
est utilise dans ma region d'origine.

Daniel
  ...maintenant un resident de Victoria, Colombie-Britannique

> On 10/4/06, Dany CHOUINARD <chouinard.dany at csob.qc.ca> wrote: 
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>         Hello group!
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>         I'm looking for an internet kiosk solution, either a liveCD
>         or  bootable 
>         PXE set of files.  I would like to see that running on a
>         diskless
>         workstation for to access the local school library web based
>         search pages.
>         
>         I already have the PXE facility in place.  Usual LTSP solution
>         doesn't 
>         run firefox locally, wich is not what I intend (the server is
>         an PIII one).
>         
>         Look like my question is not that Ubuntu specific after all,
>         sorry about
>         that.
>         
>         
>         
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