RE: [SLUG] distro for kids -firefox

From: Patrick Grantham (pwgrant@cssi-fl.com)
Date: Sat Nov 13 2004 - 20:08:51 EST


I have become an advocate of firefox. The performance is superior to IE and
mozilla as well. Few popups, I don't recall when I the last one occurred.

Might I suggest, if your using XP to create a limited access account even
with any windows or Linux solutions.

my 2 cents.

-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Russell Hires
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 7:51 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] distro for kids

Hmmm...firefox is a good way to avoid the pop-ups and such. Debian Jr.
seems like a kids distro, but there isn't a whole lot to it that I've
found. So...I'm not much help.

Russell

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:55, Mike Branda wrote:
> Slug
>
> My wife has winblows and every once and a while lets my 2 1/2 year old
> son go to sesamestreet.com and a few others. Problem is that he's too
> smart and keeps hitting media links and other popup stuff that load the
> box down with spyware. The other day my wife went into another room for
> a minute to take care of something (his computer usage is usually
> supervised), and when she came back he accidentally had an unregistered
> domain page up with x rated ad stuff around the edges.
>
> We're considering taking an old box and putting another copy of SuSE on
> it with some squid blocking rules and other system things disabled for
> him, but I was wondering if anybody knows of a kids distro already out
> there with this stuff already set up?? He loves tux racer and tux
> kart!! All that popped up in a quick google search was barbie linux
> which turned out to be a hoax.
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
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