From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 22:42:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93131065673 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-34.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-34.bluehost.com [69.89.18.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D84D8FC12 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 8906 invoked by uid 0); 18 Dec 2008 22:41:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2008 22:41:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=KCk2l7uQd4Y6noALPpKHXp0JUI48ED0zEuRhxEQ84m+A+Qmr5yq3Qkadu4swJgtPcZY8cU47RrVtzmIQ0Sjbk1ojgSUVyC09RQr+tRK5VWS6vMReuGAJBaRw59eIiqma; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LDRYd-000872-8Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:41:29 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:40:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:40:52 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081218224052.GB5674@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0eh6TmSyL6TZE2Uz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Suitability question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:42:33 -0000 --0eh6TmSyL6TZE2Uz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > personal. > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses=20 > the Internet > much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of=20 > limited usefulness > here. >=20 > I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really=20 > locked-down, high security > box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web,=20 > and a little > light word processing. >=20 > What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? =20 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2); --0eh6TmSyL6TZE2Uz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklK0XQACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXREwCeMnjb4IL5UbBHqgJCguTFskgp 1YQAni0Rnc4g6V1sVn+7OeWFOx+MH2as =NQmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0eh6TmSyL6TZE2Uz--