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Parental Control in Linux?
So.. I came here to ask what kind of genius goes and develops a Parental Control platform for iCrap (Apple) products, which is built on Linux... without releasing said Parental Control platform on Li...
JTLong wrote:
SO.. now I'm digging around the forum here, and seeing a lot of people saying that Parental Control is busted anyway. Is it busted?Parental controls are not "busted". They still work as they always have. What has changed is the way you get at them.
Netgear has moved away from using the Netgear Genie on mobile devices to manage routers and has "updated" firmware so that you now have to use the Nighthawk App.
This was part of a shift to sell things like Circle and Armor to customers. These cost money and offer much finer control over what a router does. That includes more sophisticated parental controls in Circle.
To use the older style of Parental controls you can use the router's graphical user interface (GUI) or the desktop genie app for your operating system. Windows or Mac. Other controls take you to here:
But don't expect much. Parental controls are, and always have been, basic. Anyone who is nerdy enough to be into Linux is likely to be disappointed.
> So.. [...]
Meaningless filler is seldom a good beginning.
> [...] I came here to ask [...]
This discussion might make more progress if you revealed what you're
talking about.
> [...] making a suggestion [...]
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
But if your "suggestion" there makes no more sense than your question
here, then I wouldn't expect much in the way of results.
macOS/iOS are not built on Linux but use FreeBSD as their base
Well, I could argue that the Borland code is *nix based as well, and that it's all the same difference.. but honestly, that's news to me. The way I understand it, the new core is basically Debian based, but they threw a ton of crappily coded proprietary encryption stuff in there so that nobody can post an unofficial repository with open source code, without paying the Apple chieftains for the priviledge first.
Thanks for making the point though, it's interesting and valid. It would have been more helpful if you had mentioned WHICH Mac versions were supposedly BSD based, but it's all good. :)