Knoppix4Kids (http://www.osef.org/k4kids-mirrors.html) On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:32, B_o_B wrote: > Friday, March 12, 2004 @ 1:05:17 PM Central Standard Time > > Hi. I was asked today about what I thought about using Linux in > schools for children to use & learn. > I of course said I thought it would be great. > I honestly never put much though into the Linux/Children scenario, as > I do not currently have children. > > I was wondering if anyone knew off the top of the heads about a > distro, and or software for linux, that is more geared for children & > or early (grade school) levels. Please don't spend anytime looking > this up. I'm just being lazy & will do that myself, but just curious > if anyone heard of anything like this. > > I kinda think in a way, since kids are "innocent", and free thinking > when they are so young, it would be cool/easy to just add "BASH 101" > in between Spelling in the 2nd hour & Gym in the 4th Hour. They > wouldn't know any better any ways. Then by high school level, we > (secretly if needed) start introducing small tastes of engineering > upon them. Brain children enter college & begin to create great > things all running on Linux I assure you. > End result, in 20 Years from now I can call me Friend, and > let him know "I just upgraded my toilettes kernel to the latest 8.12.2, > and it is flushing well again, thanks for the advice :)" > > Sorry for day dreaming.... > > Thanks, > > Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars > West Longitude 90' 15' 43" > http://b-o-b.homelinux.com > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list