Y'all, I just thought of something open-source that the kids would enjoy for Christmas.
My mother-in-law and two of my sisters-in law (my wife is the youngest of four sisters) are up here this weekend, and yesterday morning after I got showered and dressed and while they were taking turns using the shower and getting dressed and ready to go Christmas shopping, I was playing SuperTux (a takeoff on Super Mario Brothers featuring Tux filling Mario/Luigi's role in the game). One of them, after she got dressed, came into the room I was in and saw me playing it, and said "Fred, where did you get that game? My kids would absolutely LOVE this!". After we got back from Christmas shopping last night, while my wife and them were watching TV, I looked around online for a Live CD that has that game on it (they're nowhere close to being ready to leave Windows yet), and stumbled across a special games edition of Wolvix that, among other things, contains OVER FIFTY different open-source games, including SuperTux, Frozen Bubble, Maelstrom, XMahjongg, LTrix, FreeCiv, and much, MUCH more. It uses the XFCE interface and, in addition to its stash of games, also contains several key programs of most other distributions as well, such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, and Gaim, among other things. For those of you who have kids and/or nephews and nieces to buy for (while we don't have kids of our own yet, we've got 10 -- yes -- TEN nieces and nephews to buy for!), it's the Wolvix Games Edition, and the URL is http://wolvix.org/node/24. If you have access to a high-speed Internet connection and a CD burner, you don't need to spend one red cent for it, as it's FREE, just like most other Linux distributions! :-) Just thought I'd pass this one along in case you're wondering what to get your kids, nephews, or nieces, and looking for a FREE idea. Merry Christmas, everyone! Fred PS -- you might want to write on the CD that in order to use it, you put it into the CD drive and reboot, since, like I said, this is a live distribution. _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
