Thanks all!! I appreciate the insight too. You wouldn't think that
such a thing would be a hard find seeing the mischief kids usually get
into. Linux seems like a better solution than M$ any day for their
usage and needs. I'll check these out. Any additional suggestions are
still welcome!!
Mike Branda Jr.
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 08:56, Chad Sine wrote:
> I went through the same problem a year ago. Each of my three younger
> siblings(Ages 7, 10, 11) has there own comuter. They all had Windows on
> them, and each would regularly become infected with spyware, and require
> maintenance. So, I began searching for the best, low maintenance, high
> usability Flavor of Penguin for them. While chatting on #debianjr, Justin
> Zeigler, the President of the Open Source Education Foundation, directed me
> to Knoppix 4 Kids. (available here http://www.osef.org/) Knoppix 4 Kids
> was made possible by the OSEF in conjuction with the Tux4Kids Project.
>
> Chad Sine
>
> >From: Mike Branda <realraccoon@tampabay.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> >To: slug@nks.net
> >Subject: [SLUG] distro for kids
> >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:55:57 -0500
> >
> >Slug
> >
> >My wife has winblows and every once and a while lets my 2 1/2 year old
> >son go to sesamestreet.com and a few others. Problem is that he's too
> >smart and keeps hitting media links and other popup stuff that load the
> >box down with spyware. The other day my wife went into another room for
> >a minute to take care of something (his computer usage is usually
> >supervised), and when she came back he accidentally had an unregistered
> >domain page up with x rated ad stuff around the edges.
> >
> >We're considering taking an old box and putting another copy of SuSE on
> >it with some squid blocking rules and other system things disabled for
> >him, but I was wondering if anybody knows of a kids distro already out
> >there with this stuff already set up?? He loves tux racer and tux
> >kart!! All that popped up in a quick google search was barbie linux
> >which turned out to be a hoax.
> >
> >
> >Mike Branda Jr.
> >
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