{"id":96656,"date":"2020-10-13T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/vypusk-porteus-kiosk-5-1-0-distributiva-dlya-osnashheniya-internet-kioskov"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:42:20","slug":"vypusk-porteus-kiosk-5-1-0-distributiva-dlya-osnashheniya-internet-kioskov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/vypusk-porteus-kiosk-5-1-0-distributiva-dlya-osnashheniya-internet-kioskov","title":{"rendered":"Release of Porteus Kiosk 5.1.0, a distribution for equipping internet kiosks","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Prepared<\/a><\/noindex> the release of the distribution Porteus Kiosk 5.1.0<\/a><\/noindex>, based on Gentoo and designed for equipping standalone internet kiosks, demonstration stands, and self-service terminals. The bootable image of the distribution only 50MB and works more accurately than<\/a><\/noindex> 110 MB. <\/p>\n

The basic build includes only the minimum set of components necessary to run a web browser (Firefox and Chrome are supported), which has limitations to prevent undesirable activities in the system (for example, changing settings is not permitted, downloading\/installing applications is blocked, and access is limited to selected pages). Additionally, specialized Cloud builds are offered for comfortable web application usage (Google Apps, Jolicloud, OwnCloud, Dropbox) and a ThinClient for functioning as a thin client (Citrix, RDP, NX, VNC, and SSH) and Server for managing the network of kiosks.<\/p>\n

Configuration is performed through a special wizard<\/a><\/noindex>, which is integrated with the installer and allows you to prepare a customized version of the distribution for installation on USB Flash or hard drive. For example, you can set a default homepage, define a whitelist of allowed websites, set a password for guest access, establish an inactivity timeout to end the session, change the background image, customize the browser's appearance, add additional plugins, enable wireless network support, configure keyboard layout switching, etc. <\/p>\n

During boot, the system components are verified using checksums, and the system image is mounted in read-only mode. Updates are installed of automatically<\/a><\/noindex> using the mechanism of creating and atomically replacing the entire system image. Centralized remote configuration of a group of standard internet kiosks is possible with configuration loading over the network. Due to its small size, by default, the distribution is loaded entirely into RAM, which significantly increases performance.<\/a><\/noindex> Program versions are synchronized with the Gentoo repository (20201004). <\/p>\n

In new release<\/a><\/noindex>:\n<\/p>\n