All the solutions are costly, or proprietary, or lock you into someone else's AGENDA!!!
How about the firewall,
http://ipcop.org and on that, you run Dans Guardian webpage filter, if in a school or kids usage environment?
http://dansguardian.org Plus, SpamAssassin!!!
And, please don't forget all our spammers just waiting to get into the honeypot you could run! That really slows them down, if enough of us run one!
At beginning of this semester the Linux Users Group here assisted is setting up a used QUAD server as the school server, plus 48 donated P4 Compaqs, all running Fedora Core 5, at a private Montoressi style school.
The licensing costs of ~$84,000 for Microsoft and their 'Trusted Partners' crapware was beyond the pale!
Linux does process upto 50X faster, and, one linux server can handle the workload and tasking of up to 12 Microsoft servers!
Is it any wonder why the bean counters at MS insisted on running 45,000 Linux servers for Hotmail.com, MSN.com, Microsoft.com, the Linux Labs 400+, and, all Redmond Campus and Corporate firewalls, Aruba Routers, and systems?
Now, my favorite noob distro, with 1900 FREE games and programs, is
http://pclinuxos.com as it runs my old PII 300's through PIII 800's at speeds never envisioned by Intel!
Just a few of the 310 Linux complete liveCDroms FREE at
http://livecdlist.com Free help forums on the websites, to help you! Linux is FREE like speech, not beer.
Try a bit of FREEdom of choice!
