Yes I quite agree with Jim- I probably have messed up Window$ much more
than my 5-yr old nephew has. :^) That is why it is a good idea not to log in
as root unless needed.
As for Sridhar( I wonder how should I pronounce your name?), you
actually are a genius. While starting to learn early is of course easier,
being able to read
anything at all, let alone the MS-DOS manuals, at the age of 3 is something
even Gates will be envious for sure.
I myself started at about 9 with my lovely 16kb ZX82c. Basic, a bit of
assembler, cassete tapes... :^) Enough of that I'm feeling old.
As a matter of fact I'm turning 30 hopefully next year and here in
Brazil there is a legend that anyone who has never compiled his own kernel
will turn into a pumpkin in his 30th birthday. That is why I'm learning
Linux right now. :^)
Speaking seriously now, If I ever get to be a good C/C++ programmer and
ever manage to understand QT libraries and whatever it takes to make
programs for KDE/Gnome/X than I really plan on releasing a ChildDesktop for
Linux. It would be an enormous boost to Linux- parents would love the
thought of being able to leave their child with their computers unattended
without the risk of them doing serious harm to the system.
--Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux registered user #221896
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Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers
weren't invented in the first place.
>From James Bear:
>
>I let my four-year old run my box on the windows and the linux side--even
as
>root--she loves xbill and chess--I've had to fix a couple of things, but
she
>can never mess things up as badly as I can.
>jim
>Quoting Jeferson Lopes Zacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>From Sridhar Dhanapalan:
>Children, IMHO, are the best group to teach GNU/Linux to. Their minds are
> like sponges, developing at a rapid pace, and so they can learn new things
> quickly. They do not have any predetermined notions of how things should
be,
> unlike people who have been using WinDOS for a while.
>
> I personally began learning MS-DOS (version 2.1) on an IBM PC in 1985,
when I
> was three (yes, three) years old. The IBM quick reference guides were
> amazingly easy to follow (I also had some chunky manuals, but I didn't
touch
> those). While I realise that most people are not like myself, I believe it
> *is* possible to teach young children an OS like GNU/Linux, especially
with
> fancy X interfaces like GNOME and KDE.
