Centos as a kiosk

CentOS as a kiosk operating system. Many ways lead to success. An overview of three possibilities will be explained looking at the hardware requirements and the software, each with their advantages and disadvantages.

Termininal login with a thinclient, however this method requires specialized hardware, specialized software and high investment costs, it is still used in larger enterprises, but not necessary the best solution.

A remote disk solution using gPXE, requiring no hard disk on the client side, an advantage is central administration, a very big disadvantage is the need to invest in high performance networking.

A ramdisk with the home directory using simple scripts, requires no special hardware and each kiosk runs on it's own and can be customized. For large solutions this can be too difficult to maintain.