Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:40:52 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitability question Message-ID: <20081218224052.GB5674@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:25:51PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more > personal. > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses > the Internet > much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of > limited usefulness > here. > > I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really > locked-down, high security > box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, > and a little > light word processing. > > What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? In general, I think FreeBSD is an *excellent* choice for this. You should consider specifics of your particular case, of course, but based on what you said I see no reason that FreeBSD shouldn't meet your needs exceedingly well. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2); [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklK0XQACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXREwCeMnjb4IL5UbBHqgJCguTFskgp 1YQAni0Rnc4g6V1sVn+7OeWFOx+MH2as =NQmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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