Re: Public PC

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Dave Walker wrote:
> I hope to place a PC running Etch in our small (tiny, actually)
> airport building for use by pilots. The PC will be used to access
> perhaps 10 web sites (plus or minus) over a DSL connection and to run
> a few utilities to show GMT and a calculator and maybe a few
> additional applications. The box will also serve as a real-time data
> collection platform and web server for a local weather observing
> system, so I want to prevent it from being re-booted.

Don't do this. The server and the web browser need to be separate
machines. The "accessible" machine could be one using a LiveCD
you specially spin with limited apps on it, and which auto boots
into a browser. DSL (Damn Small Linux) should be adaptable to this.
It uses a "busy box" style display manager with limited apps loaded
up.

Critical apps are incompatible with users fooling around with
stuff.

Mike
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