Re: Linux for Kids

From: Gonzalo (nomail_at_nomail.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:03:44 -0500

Jeffery A. Stout wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have installed SuSE 9.2 Pro on all of my computers in my house and am
> working on installing Clark Connect right now as a gateway so I can
> hopefully see what the kids are doing.
>
> One problem I have is all of the games we bought the kids to play on the
> computer were all Windows. I have tried wine and it will load some of
> them but not all of them and the selections I have found for Linux are
> either really lame or play like DOS games. Is there a good version of
> linux I could use that is kid friendly or a site with good kids games?
> They are 12, 8, and 4 years old. So far the kids and their mom appear to
> like using SuSE.
>
> One reason I moved them all to it is I think that this will be a good
> learning experiance for the kids so they will have that little bit of
> advantage over others as they grow up in that they will have used Linux
> at home, Windows at the Libabry and Mac at school (yeah I am building a
> bunch of Geeks). Plus I hope I can monitor their activities on the
> internet a little better...
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Jeffery

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/24/222232&from=rss

"A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB
of open-source games, 3d support for NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel Extreme,
gamepad support for XWindows. uni-kl is University of Kaiserlautern, the
first on the list for distributing SuSE fixes - they are good. Every kid
should have one for Christmas morning."

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