My almost five year old son

[vayu]

My almost five year old to the babysitter "I got Linux". The babysitter: "What's that!". My son "I got ubuntu kyna Linux, I got penguin racer". Babysitter, "you race penguins?" My son "Noooo, it's PENGUIN RACER!".

[nrwilk]

My almost five year old to the babysitter "I got Linux". The babysitter: "What's that!". My son "I got ubuntu kyna Linux, I got penguin racer". Babysitter, "you race penguins?" My son "Noooo, it's PENGUIN RACER!".

Nice. You know he's going to be an intelligent and savvy computer user when he's tinkering with Linux at age five. Don't taint his delicate sponge-like brain with a Windows experience so early.

You may want to expose him to Windows later on, though. That way he doesn't take excellent computing for granted.

This is great, thanks for the story, man!

[Master Shake]

My six-year old knows how to get into Tux Racer, and she loves it. :)

[BWF89]

Tux Racer never ran right on WindowsXP or Linux (Fedora 2) for me. Whenever I launched the game instead of running smoothly it was very slow.

[Brunellus]

Tux Racer never ran right on WindowsXP or Linux (Fedora 2) for me. Whenever I launched the game instead of running smoothly it was very slow.
tuxracer really wants an nvidia card and dri enabled.

[matthew]

tuxracer really wants an nvidia card and dri enabled. Works well on my ATI card with the 3D driver installed (that was a bit of a pain to do, though.)

Back on topic:
My 3 1/2 year old daughter can turn her computer on (runs Edubuntu Breezy) and find the icon for gCompris and navigate in and out of all its icon-menus to find the games she wants to play, play them, and then navigate out and close the program so she can play TuxPaint or Potato Guy (aka KTuberling). Kids are amazing! I showed her how the first couple of times and now she can do things in gCompris that I didn't even know were available!

EDIT: BTW, vayu, your son sounds like a cool little guy! My daughter still doesn't know what linux/ubuntu/etc are. She did show her grandpa (my dad) all the great stuff she could do without any assistance whatsoever. Poor guy. He can barely turn his on and log in to AOL by himself. :)

[earobinson]

this made my day

[xequence]

My almost five year old to the babysitter "I got Linux". The babysitter: "What's that!". My son "I got ubuntu kyna Linux, I got penguin racer". Babysitter, "you race penguins?" My son "Noooo, it's PENGUIN RACER!".

:D