Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:27 -0600 From: eculp@casasponti.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitability question Message-ID: <20081219080327.17qwm4xcu8dckc8ck@intranet.casasponti.net> In-Reply-To: <200812191307.23297.ottk@zzz.ee> References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> <200812191307.23297.ottk@zzz.ee>
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Quoting Ott K=F6stner <ottk@zzz.ee>: > 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 >> 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 this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD. > http://www.pcbsd.org/ > > PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer, =20 > pre-configured for desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, =20 > Open Office, flash, etc. -- all will work out of the box... > > After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD =20 > -- Upgrade ports, build kernel, etc. Does anyone know if Flash 9 works on pcbsd? In fact, I use current =20 and it works but hangs probably 4 times a day and I have to kill the =20 linux pviewer.bin processes and restart apache to continue. It is =20 much better than nothing though. I'm still using wine with windows =20 firefox and flash doesn't give me any problems but I have problems =20 with character sets so I use it only for flash. ed > > Regards, > O.K. > > > > -- > M=F5=F5da oma inteneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed > http://tallinn.speedtest.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >
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