Andy on Linux II

As I have started learning to use Linux properly just merely about six months ago, I guess I’m pretty close to your regular nine year old in the sense. Well, at least I’m a Finn… But, what I can’t figure out, after reading this very interesting article (way to go, boys, keep it up!) is that howcome you found Ubuntu such a hard one to use, since for a Linux newbie, it’s much easier to use apt-get or Synaptic than other package managers (I still find aptitude quite messy and there sure isn’t anything worse than using Adept, which carries on getting the system crashing every now and then – also used pacman on Arch as well…) So far I have found Ubuntu the easiest way to keep your system up and running. That should apply for a child as well?

My 4 years old Sister uses GNU/Linux and she had never seen windowz except at school and she even can’t deal with it.

What’s the advantage to Fedora Core 6 that you folks see?
I’ve tried most of the major distributions with VMware Server
and finally settled on Kubuntu 6.10 as my favorite (at least so
far.)

One oddity: the (K)ubuntu family will run under VMware in
full screen; Fedora Core 6 and Suse 10.x (I’ve tried all from
10.0 – 10.2) insist on running as a window. The host OS for
these has been XP Media.

I set up Edubuntu on a spare computer for my son, who is 3 1/2. I’m pleased with it. I run Ubuntu on my main computer, so I have all his music and video files stored on my machine, and I set up his computer to access it using NFS. That way I can organize his files from my computer, add new music when I find it and things like that, and have everything in one place for backups.

My son likes TuxPaint and GCompris. Thanks for the heads up on the games! I just set them up on his computer. He’ll be excited to see them when he gets home. If you haven’t already, check out KStars. It’s a very good home planetarium that comes with Edubuntu.

I highly doubt that you got Compiz running with onboard video and only 256mb ram. Also, Ubuntu would run very slow on a system with your specs. You should try Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux on your system as it would run much faster. We all love linux, and agree that it’s the best OS for older hardware, but for the fancy effects fairly recent hardware is needed.

Well,this families journey into the world of computers has certainly been enhanced by the wonders that are ubuntu..
We`ve now used it in it`s various guises for about 5 months which is a month longer than we used that other thing(m.e & xp)…..now THAT was a painful 4 months.

All my 5 kids have had the choice of which os they wish to use with a windows pc being left in case of school etc…..suffice to say though windows rarely ever gets booted up now a days.

Im no computer expert and none on my kids are whizkid kid`s on a pc but every aspect of ubuntu has been a sanity saving godsend for this family and just the ££££ alone it`s going to save us in the long run is a good enough reason but the fact that ubuntu is sooooooo much better than that other crap imho just put`s the icing on the cake for me and my kids…..

I installed and tested a few linux os in my old machine: dreamlinux, lindow, mandrek, ubuntu but in non i found programming software, FEDORA has it… my son will be 7 and he likes what fedora has it he is playing chess and using gimp and i have the programming tools for c, c++ i do not know if he wants to learn someday… encouraging my kids to use Linux so that they do not suffer of costly windows