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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:57:50 +0200
From: David Brown <da...@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
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Subject: Looking for distribution for an "information screen" computer
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I'm looking for suggestions for a convenient distribution for use on a 
small PC (x86 board) for an "information screen".  On power-on, the 
system should start up a browser showing a particular web address in 
full-screen mode.  Apart from ssh access for any necessary maintenance 
(such as changing the browser address), that's all it should need to do.

The system I have at the moment has plenty of power (4 GB ram, big disk, 
etc. - it was originally spec'ed for Windows), but I'd like something 
small and fast.

I'm thinking that I could start firefox directly from a startx script - 
no need for a window manager, much less a desktop environment.  I could 
probably make a start from a minimal Debian installation.

But I'm guessing that I'm not the first person to want to do this, and 
there may be distributions that are more convenient already available.

Thanks for any suggestions.

David