I am the son of a partisan smuggler and vendor lock-in is the enemy. Been writing digital signage software for 15+ years, now mostly open source, and co owner of a company in an industry that sells communication tools but can’t really communicate. I am part-time digital nomad and a full-time obsessive coder.
Interesting. What hardware did you use?
In 2009 it was mostly x86 PCs, which run Linux fine since decades.
My research focused more on cheap and efficient ARM devices, where we now have far more alternatives with free drivers than back then.
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Japp! Porteus Kiosk is a great fit for exactly that kind of locked-down, read-only setup. Solid choice for replacing those XP boxes.
And you nailed the real pain point: VNC just doesn’t scale past a handful of machines.
Once you’re managing dozens, you need management functions that run centrally from the CMS, reboot, update, status, not logging into each device one by one. That’s where remote-desktop tools make things complicated.