Political Blather

[Oren Beck]

On 1/23/07, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok- When I mentioned usability - it meant to appliance operators.
>
> Hmm.  network drivers plus X plus lwm and instead of giving any kind
> of log-in the system just starts firefox?  AJAX drag-and-drop kinds of things
> live inside the web browser (the ghost of a fifteen year old issue of
> "InfoMoment"
> screams "you mean the thin client?") instead of in the window manager, so
> they aren't a problem.
>
> Let the applicance operators use the google document editors if they must
> have productivity software.
>
> By the way, Briahn Khelsey needs to be told that the reason I am so crazy
> is that there is no "h" in my name.  Anywhere.  Okay?
>

The summary of your comments to my understanding is calling for a "thin client".
Ok- let-s work with this a bit- how thin can we go?

What of a floppy based or cd based distro that has the minimal
hardware detect to bring up a net session,then by default bring up a
browser with any advanced config done thru web interfaces. That is, if
the target users for this proposal even would do so.
The kiosk mode locking is indeed a Very Good Thing for public users or
the skill lacking relatives we support. Then again- an intermediate
level of "are you sure?"
guarded settings may cover the exceptions.