Porteus Kiosk 4.0 Modular Linux Web Kiosk Released, Drops Chrome 32-bit Support

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Porteus Solutions’ Tomasz Jokiel announced on May 30, 2016, the release of the final Porteus Kiosk 4.0.0 Web Kiosk operating system based on the latest GNU/Linux technologies and open-source software.

Porteus Kiosk 4.0.0 comes three months after the release of the last maintenance build in the Porteus Kiosk 3.x series, introducing numerous new features and improvements. But first, let’s take a quick look under the hood, as the OS is now powered by Linux kernel 4.4.11 LTS (Long Term Support), and it’s based on the Mozilla Firefox 45.1.1 ESR and Google Chrome 50.0.2661.102 web browsers.

Porteus Kiosk 4.0.0 is the first stable build of the Linux Web Kiosk OS to drop support for 32-bit Google Chrome packages. “Google dropped support for 32-bit Chrome browser, and we have decided to follow this path. Porteus Kiosk version 4.0.0 has kernel and userland compiled for x86_64 architecture exclusively. Cu… (read more)

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