Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

[ocean]

>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 	Hi ocean, thanks for the reply.
>> 	Is there a browser that will work out of the box with flash?
>> Most of the
>> 	games the 5 y/o uses are flash-based.


if you install the right ports on a fbsd 8.0 maybe it could just works (it's being discussed in the freebsd forums:
	http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786
gnash could also work but it's known to have some issues so i won't recommend it, possibilities are firefox+flash for windows under wine which someone says it works, or linux emulation and firefox+flash.

for parental control there's also the opendns alternative that can block adult sites, though i don't know how good it works.
you could also look at this (never tried it, don't know if/how it works):
	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1803
	http://procon.mozdev.org/

also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run.

if there aren't specific problems with drivers and similar, an upgrade to a newer freebsd version could be advisable for flash :)

regards
ocean