Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:46:24 -0500 From: "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: "Patrick Baldwin" <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitability question Message-ID: <4ad871310812181346i2539ca78x2cd581f09dfa073d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com> References: <494ABFDF.1020408@studsvik.com>
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, 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. > Are you willing to maintain the machine for him? > 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. > Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. > What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? I think the idea's good, as long as you are willing to fix it when if it breaks on him. -- Glen Barber
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