My boss has bought an Acer Aspire One (Linux version) for his daughter. He’s asked if there is any software (a la NetNanny) that can be installed on it. Anyone any ideas?
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2008 12 29
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The Ubuntu Christian Edition guys use Dansguardian and lock down firefox to prevent you from changing the proxy settings.
The other option I’ve seen is Willow ( http://www.digitallumber.net/software/willow/ )
You can use dansguardian at the internet gatway too. I use ipcop on an old PC which doesn’t come with dansguardian but other options like smoothwall do/can. ipcop does have a squid proxy server which you can enable transparently and can black/whitelist for a more simple approach.
However I am aware of one person who disables the wirless access in his house for his daughter, and only lets her go online from a wired connection in the dining room where she can be watched.
On my son’s Edubuntu PC he has installed Dansgaurdian and Tiny Proxy. It all runs in the background and works a treat. I used this howto to set it up: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207008
Cheers
Try the iBoss the website is http://www.ibosswebfilters.com/. They have home and business products. I am using the iBoss home. I switched from Dansgaurdian as my son simply got around it really easy. The iboss a wireless b/g router with far superior options for filtering and includes application filtering which Dans did not. I was hesitant since Dans was free. There is a blog with a good point in that when you add up the cost of the machine and especially the electricity in running Dansgaurdian on a machine, the cost of electricity alone is a couple hundred a year. Paid about $99 for the iBoss and $59/yr. Very well worth it. Should give it a try. Works great on my network running Win, Linx, and Mac.
As above, DansGuardian, or more traditionally, SquidGuard.
Alternatively you could try using OpenDNS:
http://www.opendns.com/smb/solutions/filtering/
Thanks for the suggestions, I think I’m going to go for OpenDNS (as we use it at work, but I wasn’t aware of the content filtering!) with Dansguardian as a backup (as it will require me to read up on it first, and I’m lazy whenever possible!)
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