Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-04 Thread Johan Vermeulen
op 04-04-14 03:01, Always Learning schreef: On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 10:09 +1000, David Beveridge wrote: There is this http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar based on fedora, for younger children. Thanks Dave. But, looking at the initial web page, this is NOT what I believe is required. For

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-04 Thread David Beveridge
I have been considering doing a basic intro to computing course along these lines aimed at 8-12yo kids. The school where my kids go have XO machines that run Sugar Desktop for the little kids and gnome for the older kids. We just upgraded all the XO machines to something based on Fedora18. (from

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-04 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Johan Vermeulen jvermeu...@cawdekempen.bewrote: op 04-04-14 03:01, Always Learning schreef: On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 10:09 +1000, David Beveridge wrote: Children, and indeed people, develop at different ages. I think what is needed is something like, for

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-03 Thread Johan Vermeulen
Hello All, I think this is an idea worth a thought. op 02-04-14 19:44, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: Always Learning wrote: Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is nothing on centos.org for complete

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Johan Vermeulen jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be wrote: I would be interested to hear if someone knows of an initiative that really brings Linux to kids or kids to Linux. And if in other country's schools do use Linux. There was one... Up through CentOS5 there was an

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 22:16 +0200, Johan Vermeulen wrote: Hello All, I think this is an idea worth a thought. Ja. Dat klopt. op 02-04-14 19:44, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: Always Learning wrote: Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. I thought of telling me to

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-03 Thread David Beveridge
There is this http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar based on fedora, for younger children. dave ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-03 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 10:09 +1000, David Beveridge wrote: There is this http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar based on fedora, for younger children. Thanks Dave. But, looking at the initial web page, this is NOT what I believe is required. For example, on

[CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread Always Learning
Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is nothing on centos.org for complete beginners to Linux or for children. If anyone has the time, energy and interest, perhaps a basic technical introduction to the

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread zGreenfelder
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Always Learning cen...@u62.u22.net wrote: Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is nothing on centos.org for complete beginners to Linux or for children. If anyone has

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: If anyone has the time, energy and interest, perhaps a basic technical introduction to the Centos version of Linux would be a good long-term objective. Thank you for stepping up and taking this on.

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is nothing on centos.org for complete beginners to Linux or for children. snip Here's another idea: if they have, or have access to a