Re: Linux for Preschool?


"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.01.11.02.23.25.615411@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:05:28 +0000, Trog Woolley wrote:
>
>> While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway
>> schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx typed:
>>
>>> 1) Does anyone have any experience using Linux in this type of
>>> application?
>>
>> I work at a grammar school (year 7 to year 13) and we have four Linux IT
>> suites. Each of these has 30 screens. The younger students don't have
>> any
>> problems with it; the older students (those who remember when we had NT)
>> have a psycological problem - it ain't Windoze so it must be crap.
>> They seem to have forgotten the uptimes we had on the Windoze network;
>> if we were lucky 2 of the 3 rooms we had then would work. We now enjoy
>> almost 100% uptime. We've had two outages in the last 12 months, both
>> being hardware related, and we only lost one server each time. The rooms
>> were still operational, but on reduced performance. Also we sometimes
>> get
>> the local primary schools coming in to use one of the suites, and these
>> younger children have no problems when it comes to using the
>> applications,
>> such as Firefox, OpenOffice, TuxPaint and the KDE edutainment programs.
>>
>>> 2) Is there a reasonable amount of decent quality free educational
>>> software available for Linux? Daycare centers don't have much money so
>>> free software is helpful to them.
>
> Thanks for the response however you are are dealing with slightly older
> children. This is a day care center, the children aren't old enough to use
> OpenOffice. What sort of programs are available for 3 and 4 year olds?
>

My 2,3,5 year old like Open Office (Writer) and Firefox (www.nickjr.com ,
www.lego.com ) more than all the thousand titles of software I have bought
and downloaded. Just put the homepage of the Firefox to be www.nickjr.com
and it's safe (can't go nowere but nickjr) and they'll have fun and learn
for hours (you will have problems telling them to stop using it).


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