[ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 14/12/10 00:08, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On the software side, I've never tried Edubuntu so any suggestion in
> that area would be welcome. In particular, how to configure parental
> control, what additional software to install, etc.

There is a fairly new kid on the block for parental control from Gnome 
called Nanny (http://projects.gnome.org/nanny/) which I tried recently 
on my kids PC (A fairly old AMD 3400+, 1GB RAM) but it was a real dog 
and bought the machine virtually to it's knees. It is a good idea - an 
integration of the all the functions below and easy to configure 
interface but the performance of it wasn't acceptable for me, so I 
removed it last week.

I used to run a combination of privoxy, firehol and Dansguardian which, 
although a bit of a PITA to set up initially, once installed works well 
and has no noticeable effect on performance (Google for HowTos). This is 
what I will be re-installing this weekend.

The other app I like for the kids machine is Timekpr. Which lets you set 
both the amount of time they can use their machine and also between what 
hours too (In launchpad).

HTH

Al



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