> If you use Linux, have a look at the Debian Jr. project; they've done a > lot of work at aggregating material (games plus a whole lot more) fit > for children: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/ > > If you have a Debian system, the packages are junior-*. > > You should be able to install Debian (or other variants of Linux) on a > Mac without undue difficulty, and can even make it dual booting. :-)
I use Linux, and would love everyone to run Linux (because family/friend tech support would be easier for me), but I'd like to throw some more support Nathan's way. Running another OS just to get a single program isn't that great of a solution, especially if the rest of your apps don't also migrate well. Even getting apps running on OSX via X11 isn't very satisfying. Nathan, I can probably help test builds and stuff. My wife is still on OSX (10.3) and I have the dev tools installed on my iPod. Something that would be cool is to use the built in OSX voice synthesizer to say the letters, and make it fairly easy for the kid to change which voice says them. KidPix or some other kids program did this back on OS 7 or so -- I spent hours making sentences and having different voices say them. My son would be glad to help as well, but he's got about 2 years to catch up to where yours is at now. Maybe he can help on the 2.0 release. :-) -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it. _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
