Porteus-v5.0 released, lightweight Linux operating system
Porteus Kiosk is a lightweight Linux operating system which has been restricted to allow only use of the web browser. Furthermore, the browser has been locked down to prevent users from tampering with settings or downloading and installing software. When the kiosk boots it automatically opens the Firefox or Google Chrome browser to your chosen home page. The history is not kept, no passwords are saved, and many menu items have been disabled for total security. When the browser is restarted, all caches are cleared and it reopens automatically with a clean session to ensure no trace of history is left.
Porteus Kiosk is a full operating system that replaces Windows or any other OS during installation. While evaluating our product we recommend the installation on removable devices or in a virtual environment. When our system goes into production we strongly advise installing it on a PC hard drive.
Porteus Kiosk v5.0 released.
Changelog
Main changes include:
Kernel 5.18.8
Core is based on Slackware 15.0
8 desktop options to choose from! (7 for i586)
Perl has been moved to 05-devel (so those that need it for some perl script will need get it, so as not to need to run with devel)
Slackware package managers included: slackpkg (in core) and slpkg (in 05-devel)
A simple wrapper for slackpkg: pmod : to produce a module of the package
A small script: pkginfo : to provide some info about whether a package is installed, what’s in it, whether it has missing libs and which module it’s in, if any.
Numerous tweaks, fixes, and optimizations to our core scripts.
The syslinux bootloader creator(Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com) should now handle NMVe installations
BusyBox in initrd updated to 1.35
…much more!
