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c911darkwolf
January 20th, 2011, 09:42 PM
SO i have a old computer that was given to me and it's old enough i can't do anything with it really. Now my Son (15months) loves computers. He is always helping his dady work on them and play wow. Well in our family computer room I was wanting to setup a computer for him.

We have a little desk that we screwed down the keyboard and monitor to and now all i need is a good OS to install that is "Kid" friendly. I know there is several out there and wanted to know if there was any suggestions?

Some were consdiering:
Qimo
Suger
Kido'z

Any suggestions of better O/S's or comments on these would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks

nick_goodfate
January 21st, 2011, 12:55 AM
Sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_(desktop_environment)) is not OS, it's desktop environment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment). Like Gnome and KDE.

KIDO'Z (http://kidoz.net/plus/product_features.html) isn't OS either, it's "the safe, fun and easy-to-use Kid's Web Environment".

Qimo is basically Ubuntu customized to be usable by kids.

So go for Qimo (http://www.qimo4kids.com/page/Download.aspx) i guess...

oldos2er
January 21st, 2011, 01:47 AM
What are the computer's hardware specs?

c911darkwolf
January 21st, 2011, 02:09 AM
Well it's a 2.5ghz Pent 4, with about 512ram and 60gb Hard drive. It can stream netflix movies right now with windows xp. I can throw in some ram if needed. it has a old agp radeon card in it right now a 256mb one. Just looking for something that my son could play with. I dont mind throwing some more ram in it if needed.

klossor
January 21st, 2011, 04:59 AM
Im not all that familiar with Linux or children-aimed distro's, but I would suggest getting a basic but standard Ubuntu distro. Kids have an incredible aptitude for anything when theyre young and can adapt and learn very well, even with technical stuff. I speak from personal experience and the benefits are substantial.

You may even give him a leg up if he is able to know how to use a standardized linux based OS from a young age, even if it takes longer for him to learn how to use it, he'll certainly remember and learn from it, just my two cents ;)

c911darkwolf
January 21st, 2011, 05:30 AM
If he learns how to play around in Linux he can master any OS lol.

hsoulen
January 21st, 2011, 12:48 PM
Awesome idea!

Check out this quick review of some distros for kids:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/43224.aspx

A couple of the ones you mentioned are there.

Good luck and way to go with introducing the next generation to the "nix"!

Hank

c911darkwolf
January 21st, 2011, 06:42 PM
Awesome idea!

Check out this quick review of some distros for kids:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/43224.aspx

A couple of the ones you mentioned are there.

Good luck and way to go with introducing the next generation to the "nix"!

Hank

Very helpful site!

Looking at most of these i'm narrowing it down now. Trying to measure how easy to use it is VS security against adult material.

Suger looks good a couple years down the road, Kbuntu would be nice once he starts chool even.

Right now I think were thinking Qimo vs Linuxkidx. I really like Linuxkidx, but I wish the interface was similar to Unbuntu.

Thanks for all the helpful advice it's greatly appreciated!

Data 1
January 22nd, 2011, 02:29 AM
Kids have an incredible aptitude for anything when theyre young and can adapt and learn very well, even with technical stuff. I speak from personal experience and the benefits are substantial.

+100 on this, my first son when he was 3 had a dual boot win98/redhat computer and used to go into redhat all the time to play the penguin game.

He is 13 now.

My second son has a ubuntu computer he loves, my 3rd is only 3 and can navigate to his cartoon pages faster than I can move thats for sure.

Kids seem to master everything you put in front of them as I'm sure we would have if given the same resources available today.

I tried Jolicloud the other day, pretty cool take on Ubuntu. Both wife and kids likes it too.