Joseph Gledhill said:
>
> Like any good father I am trying to indoctrinate my kids at an early age
>  about the virtues of Linux.  Yesterday I set up an account on our home
> computer for them.  I put launchers to all the toys and games I could
> apt-get on a couple of taskbars for them and showed our oldest how to
> login.  When I came home from work they were in the office in front of
> the computer giggling and laughing.  When I looked at the screen, they
> had well over 100 copys of xeyes going and about 40 little neko cats
> running around on the desktop.   The desktop had slowed down a bit and
> they were laughing at the cats and eyes trying to catch up to the
> mouse.  Needless to say they have been spending quite a bit of time with
>  the Linux box, which is a good thing.

Great story.  The next generation, being willing to try new things,
accepts Linux very easily.  Some time ago I setup a separate computer for
my kids.

- They each love to have their own login and desktop that they can
customize the way they each want.
- They love the games.  My boys (ages 10 and 6) can't get enough of that
space war one.  And don't get me started on Frozen Bubble!
- One of my daughters (age 12) couldn't type well.  Enter ktouch.  Now she
is much better at it.
- They do all their school reports in OpenOffice.org.  Sometimes they even
save them to floppy as .DOC files and print them at school without
problems.
- My oldest daughter (age 15) is taking a drawing class in High School. 
They just did a section on computer drawing with Photoshop.  Now she is
becoming quite a GIMP expert here at home.
- My oldest son loves playing with javabots.  I need to do some more
programming sessions with him so he can get better at it.

FS/OSS and kids mix VERY well!

Alan



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