the best time to time to teach kids linux was yesterday

[david]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 18:25 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 18:09, StacyWebb wrote:
> > Both of my daughters use Linux ages 10 and 5.
> 
> Congratulations.  It's good to see people raising their kids with awareness of 
> their options, rather than as slaves to corporations :)
> 
> > Once that happens then we will see a lot more of Linux Systems in our
> > schools and in many homes.
> 
> Unfortunately that's easier said than done; people have been trying it for 
> years now.  There has been some progress though, in places like Brazil, if I 
> remember correctly :)
> 

Have a look at gcompris. It's in the repositries somewhere. It contains
a number of programs aimed specifically at (younger) children and has
memory games, a chess game and all sorts of other stuff.

regards

nux