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Looks great, I completed a similar project a little over a year ago that has been working out very well, much better than the XP install that was replaced. I started at the same libraryhacker post as you but ended up putting together a solution using stock debian with the opera web browser in kiosk mode and some additional firewall configuration to whitelist just our opac domain. I used clonezilla to deploy across all our opacs. We haven't gathered any formal data from users but there hasn't been any complaints. I suspect most wouldn't notice any differences since the end product is a full screen browser, no buttons, etc. I wrote up a blog post detailing the original process http://www.textlibris.info/archives/47 It's great to hear about these projects David Cirella On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Erik Mitchell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Joshua - > > Interesting work! I took on a tangential project to implement thin-client > opacs using linux/gnome sessions a few years ago with pretty good success > so it is nice to see some new work here. > > Other than an internal report that says that the project was mostly > successful I do not have much that came out of that work but it was > interesting to see that the opac users (largely undergraduate students) had > no issues with simple tasks (web-browsing, document printing) and readily > adapted to the linux/gnome environment. I had less success with some > linux-based thin clients in more robust word-processing environments though > (seemed to be an issue with lack of open office familiarity). We actually > tried to conduct a user-satisfaction/perception study but found that our > students did not even recognize that the environment was different as and > such had no positive or negative opinions about the platform. Have you > gathered any data from users that would show how people react to these > types of platforms? > > Erik > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Joshua Cowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hi Code4Lib, > > > > First post here but I've been following the mailing list for a while and > > the Journal and planet.code4lib longer. I just posted a write-up > (updating > > one previously posted to libraryhacker.org) about using WebConverger to > > create OPAC kiosks. I'm hoping to 1) share it with anyone who might find > > it useful and 2) hear feedback from others who are interested in Linux > OPAC > > kiosk solutions. I suspect that some of the people/projects I reference > > may be on this list as well, so feel free to chime in. There is a disqus > > comment area beneath the write-up: > > > > > > > http://blog.jcowles.com/post/36823752885/opac-kiosk-stations-dumping-windows-for-linux > > > > Thanks & I hope to attend the Code4Lib conference for the first time this > > year, so I hope to meet some of you in person soon. > > > > -- > > Josh Cowles > > Fond du Lac Public Library > > >