Commercial Distributions

[D. Bahi]

On 04/14/2010 11:17 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
>   Does anyone have any experience with providing a Linux distribution
> for a Kiosk sort of device?  Thus far, our internal development has been
> on Ubuntu with a commercial Qt license, however at this stage we need to
> start looking at this device being 'manufacturable', which means looking
> at things such as support agreements, etc.

items that may be of interest

>   Specifically, I would like to have the capability to say, easily
> create a custom installation disk with minimumal 'roll your own'. 

http://susestudio.com/

i've use this interface for a few fun roll-your-owns... personal play

but it also has a more commercial face here

http://www.novell.com/products/suse-appliance-toolkit/

>   I'm really suprised I've never seen a 'KioskOS'.

well i'm sure they are several out there including

http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpointofservice/

http://www-03.ibm.com/products/retail/products/software/index.html

have fun.

d bahi