I am with a small law firm and we are trying to come up with a way to be able to provide our clients with internet access (one website only, maybe two). This is so that they could complete online credit counseling now required by the Bankruptcy Reform Act. My idea was that we use a laptop with a Live CD distro on it, this would allow us to use this machine normally, but lock it down when a client was using it. I was looking at using Slax as a starting point since it is modular and the only application we need is Firefox so we don't need anything close to a full distro. Anyone have any advise or suggestions?

BTW - while I am not a total newbie, I'm not a programer either.

Thanks

You could try Kiosk which is part of KDE to do the actual locking down, you can control all aspects of what the user can do. You'd need a distro with at least KDE 3.4 unless you don't mind doing it by hand, its used in Internet Cafe's for exactly the same reasons you have.

Check out Linux Kiosk for a live CD with this set up. If it isn't exactly what you need you maybe able to configure your own.they give full instructions on how they did it.