cybercafe system

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
<mihamina at lab.vectoris.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here in 3rd world countries, internet is still luxury.
> I would like to setup a cybercafe (or cybercoffee?) which is a place
> with several computers and people can surf and pay the time they use the
> computer.
> I would like then have the ability to count how much time (minute
> precision) an account has been logged in.
> Most of the cybercafe I have seen is pre paid, so the real need is a
> countdown and then a forced logout when expired.
>
> What kind of ubuntu integrated solution can be used?
>
> Dont worry, it wont be expensive for the users ;-) it will just be a
> symbolic amount.

KDE has a kiosk mode - have not tried it myself though.

$ aptitude search kiosk
p   kiosktool                       - tool to configure the KDE kiosk framework

HTH,
Chris