linux games for kids

Hi Everyone I have a friend which has a windows machine. She wants some games for her 4 years old child. Since I don't know anything about games but being aware that her pc could become filled with viruses, adware, and other malware, I thought to put for her virtual machine and a linux distributio

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look here: http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2010/09/live-linux-gamers-net/ Evyatar Parker 2010/9/20 sara fink > Hi Everyone > > I have a friend which has a windows machine. She wants some games for her 4 > years old child. Since I don't know anything about games but being aware > that her pc cou

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Looks good. thanks. The light edition is for kids. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Evyatar Parker wrote: > look here: http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2010/09/live-linux-gamers-net/ > Evyatar Parker > > > > 2010/9/20 sara fink > >> Hi Everyone >> >> I have a friend which has a windows machine.

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2010/9/20 sara fink : > Looks good. thanks. The light edition is for kids. > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Evyatar Parker wrote: >> >> look here: http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2010/09/live-linux-gamers-net/ >> Evyatar Parker Is there a way to get all these games on Ubuntu, short of downloa

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Just install them using your package manager. the list is here. maybe it would be nice if someone would build a Tasksel for ubuntu or something, but AFAIK it such does not exist yet. Evyatar Parker On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > 201

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010, sara fink wrote about "Re: linux games for kids": > Looks good. thanks. The light edition is for kids. Looking at the list (http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=games), it would appear that most of them are not suitable to the level of 4 year-olds (unless your 4 yea

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Hi Nadav, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:21:31PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010, sara fink wrote about "Re: linux games for kids": > > Looks good. thanks. The light edition is for kids. > > Looking at the list (http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=games),

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:57:27PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2010/9/20 sara fink : > > Looks good. thanks. The light edition is for kids. > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Evyatar Parker wrote: > >> > >> look here: http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2010/09/live-linux-gamers-net/ > >> Evyat

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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, sara fink wrote: I have a friend which has a windows machine. She wants some games for her 4 years old child. Since I don't know anything about games but being aware that her pc could become filled with viruses, adware, and other malware, I thought to put for her virtual mac

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Try this: http://www.qimo4kids.com/default.aspx and this: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8288 And the most relevant: http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6253 By the way, why not install the distro directly - not as a virtual machine? It will save some

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Thanks for the links. Will try them too. She has windows and doesn't want to remove it. So I burned the cd of linux games mentioned in the previous mail. The problem was that for some reason it failed with xorg.conf. I got a prompt to enter username and then sudo rm After I inserted the usern

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2010/9/20 sara fink : > If I choose option 2, can you recommend names of games, how the kids liked > it, links if it's not too difficult. Hello,Sara. Using windows as only a gaming platform would be good that it will not be affected by virus.And,you can check this out[1],there are 24 games on

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Thanks Shawn The links look really good. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Shawn wrote: > 2010/9/20 sara fink : > > If I choose option 2, can you recommend names of games, how the kids > liked > > it, links if it's not too difficult. > > Hello,Sara. > Using windows as only a gaming platform