On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:59 -0700, Bryan O'Neal 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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actually, I will stay out of the distribution and applications
categories and just suggest Sugar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%28desktop_environment%29
and Moblin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin
probably available on most distributions
Craig
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