Parental controls for Edubuntu?
Gavin McCullagh
gmccullagh at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 21:58:44 BST 2006
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Robert Citek wrote:
> ByteWorks[1] refurbishes donated computers and gives them to underserved
> youth who have gone through the Earn-A-Computer program. Since our
> target audience is between the ages of 9 and 13 years, many parents have
> expressed a desire to have "Parental Controls" installed on the machines,
> something like CyberPatrol[2] or NetNanny[3]. Do "Parental Controls"
> exist for Linux, specifically for Edubuntu? They'd be willing to pay for
> such a service.
The Squid web proxy has several content filters available including:
http://dansguardian.org/
None of these are perfect, but they remove a fair bit of bad stuff.
Perfect content filtering is nigh on impossible anyway,
Setting up dansguardian is not entirely trivial but there's a guide for
Ubuntu here.
http://www.pilpi.net/journal/item-985.php
Gavin
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