On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:01, Steve Purkiss wrote:
Hello again,
My sis and a friend of hers are looking to buy PC & printer for use by "the kids" for XMAS. When I say kids, we're talking the 4+ age group.
Obviously the adults will want mail, web, office, etc. but nothing too daunting - thought I'd ask if anyone has hardware + distro recommendations. We're talking easy-to-use once installed and cheap solution.... however I was thinking mini-ITX cases etc.
Any ideas? I want to give them a good base to learn from ;)
Steve
p.s. thought I'd ask on here as still pretty lonely in LUGE at the mo... but it'll get there in time...
I don't know about which distro as ive only used debian for a few years now. I do know about game software and other fun software though :-), tuxpaint seems quite fun and simple to use. Don't most distro's have a junior package section for stuff like this? I know Debian does but i don't know how good it is. I'm also guessing you want to just set it up and then not need to play with it much as its for someone else's kids, so Debian stable would be your best option as its very tested and stable(although testing is quite stable and alot more up to date).
Handy links:
Debian JR - http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/index KDE - http://edu.kde.org/ Some of the links on this site seem abit dead but it might be helpfull - http://www.schoolforge.net/index.php
Games: TuxRacer - http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/ - you'll need an OpenGL GFX card(don't go for an ATI Radeon newer then a 9200 as the drivers are not opensource and quite buggy) Battle for Wesnoth - http://www.wesnoth.org/ - maybe not a 4 year olds game but still fun maybe. gltron - ? - Again an OpenGL gfx card is needed. PenguinCommand - ? - Arcade classic with a tux spin. FrozzenBubble - ? - kids of all ages love this game ;). TuxTyping - ? - help them type faster