[ale] Help needed for a Non-Profit project - if not Linux then will go Windows

[aaron]

On Saturday 05 April 2003 23:47, Geoffrey wrote:
> I'd like to help, but will be out of town.
> 
> One note, I'd be interested in knowing how anyone plans to lock you out 
> of the command line with win98.  If you've got a browser, you fire up 
> command.com and you've got a dos window.


Without some heavy custom programming or costly commercial solution I don't 
see how they expect winblows to effectively meet the lockout specs at any 
level. I've worked on several kiosk projects (back when), but we always won 
the bids by basing them on Amiga because winblows was so difficult and/or 
vastly more expensive to automate and customize. Linux has the access and 
tools to do it this kind of project customization cheaper and easier as well.

> I've done something very similar to what you're looking for though.  Had 
> a slide show fire up from boot for my wife during conference week.  It's 
> pretty straight forward, you call startx from rc as the last thing to 
> run. In the .xinitrc file it simply called the browser passing to it the 
> location of the slideshow.  Worked like a champ.

Sound most cool. That's the kind of flexibility these boxes need.

[snip]

peace
aaron

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