Originally posted here by Soda_Popinsky
I'm looking for equivalent technologies to this on *nix, BSD, whatever... for the sake of comparison.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../xpsgch06.mspx

Software Restriction Policy for Windows XP Clients


Anyone know of examples that compares to this on other OS's?
There is no 'frontend' that I have heard of, per se, but you can always modify permissions/ACLs on the filesystem. One thing that you may want to look at is the KDE kiosk mode:

http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/

and

http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool/