Well, yeah. I guess so.
On Thursday 25 March 2004 03:10 pm, Joseph Gledhill wrote:
> Yeah, I worry a bit about the primary computer in the hands of a 6,4 and
> 2 year old.
>
> Michael Havens wrote:
> >Perhaps you should get your kids a computer at the ASU surplus store.
> >
> >On Thursday 25 March 2004 09:03 am, 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.
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