[ale] building a Linux lowend web browsing station

[Jonathan Glass]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:28, Benjie Godfrey wrote:
> This should be an easy task.  A customizable distro such as Debian or
> Slackware can be installed on a single machine and imaged with a utility
> like partimage ( http://partimage.sf.net.) Once the base OS is installed
> the network and X can be configured ( I am assuming various video and
> network cards.)  That would be the most time consuming part ( about 5-10
> minutes per machine.)  I would recommend running a light-weight window
> manager such as Windowmaker or Blackbox, and Phoenix ( a stripped down
> version of Mozilla) as the browser.  Alternatively you could run with no
> window manager and run just the browser.  That would make it harder for
> someone to goof the system.   
> 
> 
> Benjie
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale

You could use X, and use mozilla as the browser, and make it the only
application that runs.  Setup your autologin to login a given user
account, then set mozilla to run in the ~/.Xclients file.  If the
mozilla session gets killed, it automagically respawns.

Is there an easier way to do something like this?  I heard someone say
you could do this in /etc/inittab, but I've never tried that.

Thanks
-- 
Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127

_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale