From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 11:07:28 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 5AFE11065674 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ottk@zzz.ee) Received: from zzz.ee (kalah.zzz.ee [194.204.30.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F2B8FC13 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ottk@zzz.ee) Received: from zzz.ee (localhost.zzz.ee [127.0.0.1]) by zzz.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB40FD48A for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:07:26 +0200 (EET) Received: by zzz.ee (Postfix, from userid 3019) id BA3F0FD452; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:07:26 +0200 (EET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin on spamassassin.zzz.ee X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Guessed-Language: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_05 X-Spam-Checker-URL: http://info.zzz.ee Received: from ott.sise (adsl215.uninet.ee [194.204.62.215]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by zzz.ee (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38D27FD1D4 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:07:24 +0200 (EET) From: Ott =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6stner?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:07:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812191307.23297.ottk@zzz.ee> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP @zzz.ee 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: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:07:28 -0000 On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: > 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 this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer, pre-configured fo= r desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, flash, etc. --= all will work out of the box... After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD -- Upgra= de ports, build kernel, etc. Regards, O.K. =2D-=20 M=F5=F5da oma inteneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed http://tallinn.speedtest.net/