On Thursday 25 March 2004 09:03, Joseph Gledhill wrote:
> 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.
My grand daughter (age 9) has learned a little Gimp and uses the Wacom
tablet I have to create drawings. I showed her how to use layers and she's
becoming very adept at making, and revising, her works. (I need to buy a good
quality color printer for her.)
Speaking of "neko", I went looking for sources but both sourceforge (and
freshmeat) but came up empty handed. I *did* find two versions of xneko
through google but both look very old and needed a bit of Makefile tweaking
to build for Linux. Even then, there was no option to run it on the root
window.
Anyone have, or know where to get a recent Linux version's source of neko
(or xneko)?
--
Ed "The Kid" Skinner,
ed@flat5.net,
http://www.flat5.net/
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