Stand alone system for 5-8 yr olds

[Richard Weideman]

Hi Rodney,

Have you considered installing Edubuntu ?

It has some great education applications for your kids age group,
including the KDE Education suite, and a bunch of games.

You'll still have all of the Ubuntu goodness if you go this route, a lot
of our education team and community, including myself, use this for our
daily work.

Alternatively, you can just install the education packages into Ubuntu
using the Add/Remove programs menu item, and selecting the education and
games sub-section.

Let me know if you want a list of the standard apps we install with
Edubuntu. I can get this together early next week.

Richard

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:20 -0500, Rodney Schuler wrote:
> My wife is director of a day care center.  Over the summer they will
> be having some more, older, kids.  She has asked me to set up a stand
> alone computer for the occasional entertainment of the 5-8 year old
> children.
> 
> I have a 866Mhz P3 with 512MB ram with a 128MB ATI 9550 video card
> running ubuntu feisty.  My 8yr old daughter enjoys planet penguin
> racer on the machine so the performance should be acceptable for most
> games.  I was planning to set it up with an automatic logon and a
> bunch of game icons on the desk top.
> 
> Is this a reasonable plan for children in the 5-8 age group?  Do you
> have any recommendation for games or edutainment packages that would
> be appropriate for 5-8 year olds?
> 
-- 
Richard Weideman
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Education Programme Manager
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