Re: Linux laptop for a pre-schooler

2009-10-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 18:54 -0700, James Crawford wrote: > I know I'm late to comment but I just installed qimo on an old Dell box that > we were not using any longer. > My 2 yo grandson loves Tux-Paint and we will be setting the box up at his > house this weekend on next. > Along with instructio

Re: Linux laptop for a pre-schooler

2009-10-24 Thread Tuna
Awesome! Let us know how that goes. Excerpts from James Crawford's message of Fri Oct 23 18:54:10 -0700 2009: > I know I'm late to comment but I just installed qimo on an old Dell box that > we > were not using any longer. > My 2 yo grandson loves Tux-Paint and we will be setting the box up at hi

RE: Do not appreciate the implication that I am "pathetic."

2009-10-24 Thread Bob Elzer
You can hear the tone in his voice by reading text ? Wow you have some super human abilities, you should be on that show Heroes. What tone, did I just use ? My take from his message, was he thought the linux distro you are running was pathetic, not you. But you have never told us what disto

Re: Linux laptop for a pre-schooler

2009-10-24 Thread Eric Cope
GIMP baby! On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:54 PM, James Crawford wrote: > I know I'm late to comment but I just installed qimo on an old Dell box > that we were not using any longer. > My 2 yo grandson loves Tux-Paint and we will be setting the box up at his > house this weekend on next. > Along with

Re: OT: Do not appreciate the implication that I am "pathetic."

2009-10-24 Thread Eric Cope
It may be rare, but I agree with Craig with this one. If updates break your distro, you may want to consider a distro that supports the proper quality assurance to ensure functionality. If you prefer a distro that doesn't, know that the responsibility is on your shoulders. If you can't hack it (lik