I'm looking for suggestions for a convenient distribution for use on a small PC (x86 board) for an "information screen". On power-on, the system should start up a browser showing a particular web address in full-screen mode. Apart from ssh access for any necessary maintenance (such as changing the browser address), that's all it should need to do.
The system I have at the moment has plenty of power (4 GB ram, big disk, etc. - it was originally spec'ed for Windows), but I'd like something small and fast.
I'm thinking that I could start firefox directly from a startx script - no need for a window manager, much less a desktop environment. I could probably make a start from a minimal Debian installation.
But I'm guessing that I'm not the first person to want to do this, and there may be distributions that are more convenient already available.
Thanks for any suggestions.
David