Best distribution for an infant :)

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 13:56:44 MST 2010


beats my start by 4 years... but my data was trying to force me to
learn C so i balked till that old...

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you should have der Hans give her his OLPC machine.  Then she could
> learn to use it and teach the rest of us.  Maybe we could even get her to do
> a demo.  Obviously she is a very smart almost one year old.
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal <boneal at cornerstonehome.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have decided to give my daughter (who is not quite a year old) her own
>> laptop (an old Sony I have in the garage). I am doing this because
>> 1) I am tired of her sneak attaching me when I am working on my computers
>> and think if she had her own it would help quell this. So far this has
>> worked for books, magazines, etc.
>> 2) I am tired of working with her with flash cards and would like some
>> applications designed by educational professionals.
>> 3) I want her to be interested in computers as something other
>> then those forbidden objects that take all of daddy's time.  Thus I want
>> something a young child could learn how to use over the next few years.
>> Any suggestions for distribution and applications.  - Please only
>> serious suggestions - Slackware need not apply
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Stephen


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