[Fedora-spins] [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-tools 032 coming

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 06/21/2010 02:57 PM, Martin Dengler wrote:
> [Sorry to reply to GP - I'm not on spins@]
>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 14:06:18 -0400,
>>    Daniel J Walsh<dwalsh at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> One think I would like to talk about with livecd-creator would be a way
>>> to setup the livecd to have uninterrupted boot.
>>>
>>> The question is, am I the only one who thinks this is interesting?
>
> IIUC, "uninterrupted" boot is quite useful for Sugar on a Stick[1], at
> least on some architectures (XO-1, XO-1.5).  If it wasn't present,
> we'd have to hack it in[2]
>
> Martin
>
> 1. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
> 2. http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/soas-liveuserscripts-eliminate.ks?h=blueberry


My idea is for apps like cash registers/kiosk/demo booths.  If I imbed a 
bootable OS and do not allow external USB/CD.  Theoretically people who 
can touch the box, can not boot their own OS or break into the OS to 
turn off security features like SELinux/iptables etc.