[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Has anyone used Porteus Kiosk for their library catalog?

[Josh Stompro]

Hello George, we looked at it a few months ago but decided to go with Linux Mint + OpenKiosk instead.  There was some gotcha that I don't quite remember.  In browser PDF viewing maybe.  It was a while back, it might have been before chromium was offered, which might take care of the PDF issue.

We also looked at Sanic Kiosk http://sanickiosk.org/, but also had some unremembered issue with it, possibly pdfs again.

The javascript PDF viewer of chromium and firefox just wouldn't display some of the PDFs from megafile, or they would display after 10 minutes, but we wouldn't be able to print them.  We encourage customers to use our catalog machines to access our various database subscriptions so that was a requirement for us.

Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of George Tuttle
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:11 PM
To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Has anyone used Porteus Kiosk for their library catalog?

Has anyone used Porteus Kiosk for their library catalog? It installs quickly with an easy-to-use set up wizard. You pick your browser (Firefox or Chrome), set your homepage, set your browser idle time (when it will return to the homepage, if left idle), disable the address bar on the browser (and any other browser modifications), enable the screensaver, and voilà.

George Tuttle
Information Technology Librarian
Piedmont Regional Library System
706-367-9399 x1130
770-891-0654 (cell)
706-367-8032 (fax)
gtuttle at prlib.org<mailto:gtuttle at prlib.org>
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