Porteus Kiosk 3.3.0 發布
Porteus Kiosk是輕量級的Linux操作系統,它基于Gentoo
Linux但卻被限制為只允許運行一個應用程序即Firefox網頁瀏覽器。該瀏覽器被鎖定從而阻止用戶去改動設置或是下載安裝其他軟件。系統啟動后,它
自動調用Firefox并打開用戶選定的起始頁面。瀏覽器不保存歷史記錄或輸入的口令,很多菜單功能也被禁用以提升安全程度。Firefox每次重啟時都
會清空緩存,這樣瀏覽器每次啟動的都是一個無歷史痕跡的會話。
Tomasz Jokiel has announced the release of Porteus Kiosk 3.3.0, a lightweight Gentoo-based distribution designed for web kiosks: "I'm
happy to announce Porteus Kiosk 3.3.0 which is now available for
download. This is a major kiosk release which brings a number of new
features, package upgrades and security fixes. The Linux kernel has been
updated to 3.18.8 while Firefox sticks to the ESR channel which is
intended for large organizations such as universities, governments and
businesses and is numbered as 31.5.0. All packages from the userland
which are living in the Gentoo stable branch are upgraded to the
snapshot tagged on 20150301. Aside from the package upgrades, Porteus
Kiosk 3.3.0 brings exciting new features which are implemented in the
kiosk wizard and the ISO image itself. The most notable ones are:
introduced central management function which allows to remotely control
multiple kiosk PCs from single configuration file stored on your
server...." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (MD5): Porteus-Kiosk-3.3.0-i486.iso (61.0MB, pkglist), Porteus-Kiosk-UEFI-3.3.0-i486.iso (61.0B).