Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Paul Lussier
Wow! I had no idea there was so much! Thanks a bunch everyone, lots of stuff to look at and play with. Now I just need to find a few more hours in the day :) -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gn

Fwd: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Greg Rundlett
(I meant for this to go to the whole list) GCompris (a play on words from the French for "I understand") comes with edubuntu and is packaged for Debian (plus a whole lot of distros). I can tell you from personal experience that it's quite nice for kids to play and learn with -- meaning that I'm

Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:48, Paul Lussier wrote: I have a spare PIII laying around here and I thought I'd start building it up for my kids to play with. I'd like to have some educational games and the like for them, and since it's a PIII, I doubt Windows is going to work on it ;) GCompris is a

Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:48:19AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > I thought I remember someone mentioning an educational Linux distro a > long time ago. Does such a thing exist? I'll end up googling for > > I have a spare PIII laying around here and I thought I'd start > building it up for my kids

Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
There's a Debian subproject that specializes in making an educational distribution. They make SkoleLinux. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu Is that what you're remembering? -N On Saturday 24 June 2006 10:48 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > I thought I remember someone mentioning an educa

Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:09 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > You might take a look at http://www.edubuntu.org/ > > While it seems to be targeted to education in schools, it may provide > some good stuff for kids. A brief peek at the screenshots looked > interesting. My understanding (and somebody pl

Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:48 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > I thought I remember someone mentioning an educational Linux distro a > long time ago. Does such a thing exist? I'll end up googling for > stuff, but I thought I'd ask in case anyone was more up on this than I > am. > > I have

Re: Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Ted Roche
On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Paul Lussier wrote: I thought I remember someone mentioning an educational Linux distro a long time ago. Does such a thing exist? I'll end up googling for stuff, but I thought I'd ask in case anyone was more up on this than I am. You might take a look at http://

Educational Linux distros?

2006-06-24 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi All, I thought I remember someone mentioning an educational Linux distro a long time ago. Does such a thing exist? I'll end up googling for stuff, but I thought I'd ask in case anyone was more up on this than I am. I have a spare PIII laying around here and I thought I'd start building it u