I have (or will have) a small Linux server running a minimal desktop distro and web server. The server will be used daily by someone sat next to it (using a web browser).
In addition, I need to put a 42" display elsewhere in the building which will use a web browser to show a page from the same server. There'll be no local mouse or keyboard. There may be more than one such display in future.
Any good options?
Presumably I could use an extra video card for a second display (not sure the server will have a spare slot but maybe a USB video card would do) and run everything from the server, however I don't think I can be sure to stay within distance limits for USB. On the other hand I could just stick a PC with the 42" display, but that would be overkill. Having something that sat on ethernet (and perhaps could be configured via SSH) would be ideal, I'm just not sure what exists?
Note that the web application makes use of jQuery and AJAX so it may place some limitations of the choice of browser. The ability to restart the browser periodically would be useful, knowing how they all seem to leak memory!