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I don't know of an OS or distro dedicated to this, but it should be pretty easy using cage-kiosk, a window manager that only allows for a single window, and cog, a very basic web app container.
Install cage and cog on whatever distro you want, setup autologin, then in your ~/.profile add something like
cage -- /usr/bin/cog https://example.com
It should boot directly to the webpage at that point. Make sure to set up ssh before you do all this! System management might get tricky if you dont
Thanks, is there an install guide? I looked over their wiki and I can't find anywhere that says "so here's how you install this"
If your doing this on a pi with raspian, both of these packages should be available. You can run
sudo apt install cage cog
in a terminal to install both of them.Oh. Well that's simple then. From their docs it didn't sound like it was in the repos. Cool then!