Recommends for "just a browser" live distros- either existing ones orcomments on making one.

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SliTaz_GNU/Linux  smallest LiveCD
Forgot to mention this in last email.



Brian Kelsay


-----Original Message-----
From:  Oren Beck

As a result of past discussions on using free to cheap hardware for
Linux some folks are sharing ideas.
One of my campers here suggested I "bribe" programmers to improve his
kiosk Linux experience! That evening produced about 10 pages of
scribbled notes on must do and cannot EVER do events. Then a near
equal amount of "would be so cool" functionalities. The upshot is we
soon grasped a fundamental common element. A web browser was 100% of
the user interaction with whatever that user was doing! So? Nothing
earth shaking in that. The recurrent theme/s in comparing all 3 lists?
 must do FOO- never can let BAR happen - would be neat if it could?

ALL centered on insulating a user from preventable frustration .

The user sits down and accesses the web. NO tech skill needed. - For
the duration of their session every step builds a "Go Back" button
buffer.  Saving and printing  in some mode akin to assisted
repartitioning tools. The information above was harvested from
comments made by campers and staff over the last year or so that the
kiosk has been up. Let me fill in the background if anyone on list
missed it.

I have been using both Puppy and Damn Small for a public guest kiosk
here at the campground. Subject to minor annoyances it's been an
overall success. The question to me is what other options exist for
this niche? Or is there potential in craft building such a distro? I
would consider trading camping and fishing as incentives. Basically I
think our membership has the collective skills to make several sorts
of world improvements. Or just to share ideas in a different sort of
meeting space

The idea being?  To get a group session out here sometime next spring
where we'd compare the winter's projects.