On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin <patrick.bald...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
