[svlug] Linux "Kiosk" as a public terminal

[Walter Reed]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:00:12PM -0700, James Leone wrote:
> There is something called a reborn card, that I heard about on another 
> list. It is used in a lot of cybercafe's I hear, because it brings 
> everything back the way it was on reboot.
> 
> http://www.microbits.com.au/products/reborn/index.htm

I suppose one could mount the drives as read-only, and run with a
reasonable sized ramdisk for the writable area. tmpfs in swap may also
be useful. As others have stated, bootable CDs are also an option, as is
network booting.

A hardware device such as reborn isn't neccesary with Linux. From the
web page you listed, it seems to be a Windows product anyway.