On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:20:05AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2015 04:55:46 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > Ok, that's clarified, I think, what you mean by DE. You want (I'm > > > guessing) a machine to come up with its full Desktop Environment as if > > > the user "myexperiments" had sat at the console and typed in their > > > username and password. > > > > > > I have no idea why you wrote "Power on yields operating system." > > > (Unless you meant No BIOS Password and No Grub Password, so that > > > linux itself boots when you power up.) > > > > And that's the trivial part, the non trivial part is locking down the > > browser and DE so that the rest of the system is inaccessible by the end > > user. > > > > I would search google about setting up a kiosk system. > > I know that various people have suggested that Richard may mean a kiosk > system, but how does the above quotation from him mean that?
That's a best guest. Richard has already said that he want's to boot to a browser without human interference, and so I assume[1] that he wants someone to be able to browse the web without "messing" with the rest of his computer. That's a best guess from the information he's given us. [1] I know, if you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME (yeah, I remember Benny Hill.) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
