Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100 From: ocean <ocean_ieee@yahoo.it> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o Message-ID: <4B1EA7F4.2070202@yahoo.it> In-Reply-To: <004d01ca7817$cbda4220$638ec660$@net> References: <004801ca780e$6cca8f50$465fadf0$@net> <4B1E62EF.1040903@yahoo.it> <004901ca7815$5546f380$ffd4da80$@net> <6201873e0912080656h77899aa2s77b459d5369350be@mail.gmail.com> <004d01ca7817$cbda4220$638ec660$@net>
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>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi ocean, thanks for the reply. >> Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash? >> Most of the >> games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based. if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (it's being discussed in the freebsd forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 gnash could also work but it's known to have some issues so i won't recommend it, possibilities are firefox+flash for windows under wine which someone says it works, or linux emulation and firefox+flash. for parental control there's also the opendns alternative that can block adult sites, though i don't know how good it works. you could also look at this (never tried it, don't know if/how it works): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1803 http://procon.mozdev.org/ also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. if there aren't specific problems with drivers and similar, an upgrade to a newer freebsd version could be advisable for flash :) regards ocean
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