[Cialug] Kiosk suggestions?

[L. V. Lammert]

At 10:31 AM 6/30/2010, you wrote:

>On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
> > USB thumb drive boots almost as fast as a hard drive. Ubuntu can 
> make a live usb thumb drive from an ISO. 1GB or larger thumb drive needed.
>
>If you can install to a "USB thumb drive" you can install to a the 
>hard drive -- they're both just random-access block devices.

Why not just reset permissions on the HD to RO for everything except 
/var/log, .. and then tweak the /home partition so as to prevent 
downloads? A cron job could also blow out a 'stock' user profile if 
anything changed.

         Lee