From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 14:03:29 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 CB6411065676 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@casasponti.net) Received: from ns2.bafirst.com (72-12-2-19.static.networktel.net [72.12.2.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F198FC0C for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@casasponti.net) Received: from casasponti.net ([201.155.7.3]) by ns2.bafirst.com with esmtp; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:27 -0600 id 000D4CF6.494BA9B0.00004B77 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by casasponti.net with local; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:27 -0600 id 00130D5B.494BA9AF.000006C7 Received: from dsl-189-190-24-18.prod-infinitum.com.mx (dsl-189-190-24-18.prod-infinitum.com.mx [189.190.24.18]) by intranet.casasponti.net (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:27 -0600 Message-ID: <20081219080327.17qwm4xcu8dckc8ck@intranet.casasponti.net> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:27 -0600 From: eculp@casasponti.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> <200812191307.23297.ottk@zzz.ee> In-Reply-To: <200812191307.23297.ottk@zzz.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (5.0-cvs) X-Remote-Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111410 Firefox/3.0.4, Ant.com Toolbar 1.1 X-IMP-Server: 201.155.7.3 X-Originating-IP: 189.190.24.18 X-Originating-User: eculp@casasponti.net 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 14:03:29 -0000 Quoting Ott K=F6stner : > 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" >