On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:05 -0600, Jon Pruente wrote:
I just found the MorphixLiveKiosk http://www.morphix.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&...
There is also a seemingly easy to use remaster setup for Puppy Linux. I haven't tried either of these, but they look promising for a good starting point. I've run Puppy, and it's pretty dang fast. I've never mastered my own LiveCD before, but the pages on puppyos.com make it look fairly easy.
I have been working on the Debian Live project for a year and can say with reasonable certainty (and pride) that is the easiest way to make a live CD. It has support for making live CD's, network boot images, and USB/hard drive boot images.
You can, for instance, generate an ISO with whatever desktop environment that you prefer by merely invoking the make-live utility with the appropriate package list. And lets say that you, for instance, would additionally like Wireshark on the CD: you merely list that as an additional package that you would like included in the ISO. For example:
$ sudo make-live -a amd64 -d etch -p gnome-core --packages wireshark
The above command will generate an ISO built from the latest Debian Etch release packages with only the most important gnome packages and additionally Wireshark included.
Personally, my interest in Debian Live has been in the network boot functionality and have, in fact, used it for Internet kiosks as you have suggested. Only, no CD-ROM drives needed.