Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:15:20 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "Patrick Baldwin" <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitability question Message-ID: <991123400812190015l307fd7aeg36f7f965173bf6be@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Patrick Baldwin <
Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> 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?
What has he been running on? Windows XP? Give him an account without
Administrative rights!
Anything else will be too much work for you and him.
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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unlike our MPs!"
-- Kenneth Marende, Speaker, 10th Parilament.
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