i want to build a internet kiosk

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HI all,
I bought the Beaglebone Black. i want to transform it into a nice little desktop for my family.
What is the best setup (OS, desktop, browser) for a nice internet kiosk machine (mainly browser).

Thanks Navot.

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Hi Navot;

If you go to this site: https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone/index.htm

You can buy just the Atrix laptop and cables. I have an 8GB image of Ubuntu with a couple of different GUIs

up and running.

Works great and Ubuntu has support for just about anything.

Bill

http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book

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Hello Navot,

There are several options regarding OS and configurations, there are pros and cons for any of them. I’ll describe my experience with Ubuntu and browsers.

  1. I’m creating somehow “operator desktop”, which is not much different then a kiosk application.
  2. The biggest issue is the browser:
  • Ice Weasel (Firefox like), heavy, clunky, generally always makes troubles for my pages. I gave up this guy quite quickly.
  • Chromium, fast but heavy, starts a bit long but it is smooth. It has a kiosk mode, but sometimes displays nasty po-pups (like info about no closing last time), this can be fixed by cleaning up the profile on start-up.
  • Midori, “The Third” browser in my opinion, positive experience. Not that fast in vector graphics as Chromium.
  • DWB, regarding performance, same as Midori, but with extremely minimalist UI. Interesting project however, I’m afraid of support.
  • There are few others I have looked at, like :luab or something like this.
    Except Ice Weasel, all other browsers bases on Web-Kit, so they are somehow similar standard implementations.
  1. I didn’t start UI desktop, just Xorg and a very simple window manager “Matchbox Window Manager”. DWB even do not require a manager. If you plan to build a kiosk, try do the same and do not start a UI desktop, it just wastes memory in this case.
  2. Do you plan to use touch screen? Generally quite painful, there are several discussions about this. I had to fix the driver for my touch screen hardware.

That’s it.

Good Luck.
Piotr.

W dniu sobota, 5 kwietnia 2014 08:47:10 UTC+2 użytkownik navo...@gmail.com napisał:

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Piotr,
Thanks for the answer,
The thing is that I really want the “desktop experience” I want to build something like a mini desktop.
What will you recommend for that?

Navot.

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BTW, no touch screen only keyboard and mouse.