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 +27 (83) 321-2233 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Education Programme Manager Canonical Ltd - Linux for Human Beings http://www.edubuntu.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
