Best live cd for an internet cafe? - Help please...

[vv1r3d]

I need a live cd that will fully load into memory, be fast, not allow anyone to install things, but be able to run on a Mac and a PC, as well as allow the following:

Office programs
Saving to a floppy
Web Browsing
Standard Games


OPTIONAL:

No login needed
sound support (so they can use headphones to listen to music and videos)
MAKE CD DRIVE UNRESPONSIVE TO OPEN COMMANDS


Any help would be great, and much appreciated.

Thank you in advance, VV1r3d

[nick]

Knoppix has a kiosk mode, but I'm not too familiar with it. KDE and Gnome also have kiosk modes/utils, which I suppose you could setup and remaster a livecd with, but I'd try out the knoppix "kiosk" boot cheat code first.

Also there are several premade kiosk LiveCDs, one's at http://www.kioskcd.com/ , another used to be at livecd.net, but it looks like it's gone now.

Most of your requirements should be easy to use, although loading them into memory usually allows the CD drive to be opened. Why not just load them normally off the CD, then have them fill the memory as they're used? That way the CD stays locked.

The PPC requirement will be tough, there are a lot more i386 LiveCDs available. Maybe a customized set of ubuntu, kubuntu, or xubuntu ppc/i386 LiveCDs would work.

[vv1r3d]

actually i did not mean that they couldn't access it, but could not tell the drive to open, unless of course the computer is restarting (which is what we will instruct them to do if they have an error with the computer, since most people do not know linux in my area).

Thank you very much for your input, VV1r3d

P.S. I will be checking out those links soon!

[farmall]

There are ways to install Linux CD images to hard disk, USB drive (put the USB drive on an internal connector inside the computer case) or flash card in and IDE or SATA adapter that give you the benefits of live CDs without all those evil moving parts.

The Damn Small Linux forums and the Pendrive Linux site have useful info.
You would also free up the CD drives if the users wanted to move information from a personal CD to a personal USB key or other device.


http://pendrivelinux.com/

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi

[Snow123]

I also think he PPC requirement will be tough, there are a lot more i386 LiveCDs available. Maybe a customized set of ubuntu, kubuntu, or xubuntu ppc/i386 LiveCDs would work.