It does not require installation and can be run from fixed and removable media, such as a USB flash drive or compact disc.

Proteus is a "Greek god of the sea, capable of changing his form at will", according to the naming announcement on the Porteus forum.

[19] The Porteus Kiosk system is open source and available free-of-charge, although a number of commercial services such as custom builds, automatic updates and software upgrades are available.

As Google Chrome doesn't support 32-bit machines anymore, the developers of the distribution decided to follow that path.

The default image is about 80 MB while the size of the custom kiosk ISO will depend on the choice of added extra components such as Adobe Flash, Java, additional fonts and other factors.

This clever and simple service lets you create a custom Live CD distro that fits a USB stick and loads in RAM.