On March 2, the fifth version of the distribution was released Porteus Kiosk 5.0.0based on Gentoo Linux, and designed for the rapid deployment of demonstration stands and self-service terminals. The size of the image is only 104 mb.
The distribution includes the minimum environment required to run a web browser (Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) with reduced rights - changing settings, installing add-ons or applications is prohibited, access to pages that are not included in the white list is prohibited. There is also a pre-installed ThinClient for the terminal to operate as a thin client.
The distribution kit is configured using a special tool combined with the installer. setup wizard β KIOSK WIZARD.
After loading, the OS verifies all components using checksums, and the system is mounted in a read-only state.
Major changes:
- The package base is synchronized with Gentoo repository on 2019.09.08
- Kernel updated to version Linux 5.4.23
- Google Chrome updated to version 80.0.3987.122
- Mozilla Firefox updated to version 68.5.0 ESRs
- There is a new utility for adjusting the speed of the mouse cursor - Screenshot
- Now you can customize intervals of different durations change browser tabs kiosk mode β Screenshot
- Firefox taught to show images in format TIFF (through intermediate conversion of it to PDF format)
- The system time is now synchronized with the NTP server every day (previously synchronization only worked when the terminal was rebooted)
- Added a virtual keyboard to make it easier to enter a session password (previously a physical keyboard was required)
Source: linux.org.ru