RE: [school-discuss] Kids and Linux

["Andy Lopata" <alopata@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

Paul,

I concur with the suggestions to try a Knoppix CD.  I have used it on my
laptop (900Mhz Athlon with 384MB RAM) and on my son's (he's 5 years old)
home PC (950 Mhz with 128MB RAM) and it runs great.  The only things I
haven't been able to get working (and I haven't tried very hard) are the
modem and printing.  Some of the 3D graphics stuff didn't work well on the
PC (like Tux Racer), but I think it has to do with the lack of a decent
graphics card.

BTW I installed Mandrake Linux (v. 9.0) on my son's PC.  It was a breeze to
install, it works very well and has many children's games/edu programs.  The
PC cost me $199 from Tiger Direct.  It came with Lindows OS pre-installed,
but I didn't want to pay for their yearly click-and-run service so I
installed Mandrake instead.  My son has a great time playing on his computer
and he loves Tux!

-Andy Lopata


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
[mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net]On Behalf Of Paul
Coelho
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 2:45 PM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: [school-discuss] Kids and Linux


Hi:

   If this is a newby question I apologize in advance.  Is there a mechanism
by which to get kids - mine 7 & 9yrs - exposed to the Linux OS short of
purchasing a system to run it at home?  Any resources you can point me to -
Linux OS training for kids - would be appreciated.

   TIA


Paul Coelho

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