I'm not sure about the reach of Opera's features, but Phoenix, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ , has built in popup killing and advanced cookie filtering as well as being really fast; so you might consider that to keep your daughter's eyes safe from rude advertisements. As far as open source firewalling for windows goes I don't know of anything, nor could I find anything on sourceforge/google.
Good luck, Nelson LeBlanc ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Doug Riddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:42:58 -0800 (PST) >My daughter is leaving for college, major unknown as of yet. I am >relaoding her PC, a P-200, 128 MB RAM, 6.5 Gig HDD. > >She wants Windows as the OS. College is hard enough without fighting >the OS, so who cares. I have ten or fifteen legal copies of Win98 >and Win95 around. I am more interested in the software than the OS. > >I loaded the AVG virus scanner and updated it. >I installed winzip, Acrobat, Gimp, Open Office, and Opera. > >What am I missing? > >If your kid was leaving for college, what Open Source app would you >NOT want to forget. I have until about 11:00 AM Monday, 01/20/2003 >to do the installs. I am on broadband, so download time is trivial. > >I appreciate any suggestions. Especially about Open Source firewalls >for Windows. She will be one a campus dial-up, so I doubt it will be >a big deal, but if anyone knows of one... > > > >===== >Warmest Regards, > >Doug Riddle >http://www.dougriddle.com >http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ >http://www.libranet.com >-- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the >Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
