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Topic: Linux for the family, even young children can use DSL

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brianw

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Posted: Oct. 04 2005,23:18

Just to let users know. My children 8,7,5,4 use DSL now. I installed some apps for them and installed kdm for easier login and they really enjoy it. They each select their login from the list and type in their passwords to get in. The older ones start their own apps from the desktop (gcompris, tuxpaint, etc...) and I don't need to worry about them "mucking something up" because they only have limited access. If they mess things up for thier login I can just delete them and copy from one of the others to get them back. I customized their menus so they only have limited access from the desktop and gave them their own group. They really like DSL.

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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,01:51

Cool beans!!

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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,17:32

Quote (brianw @ Oct. 04 2005,19:18)

Just to let users know. My children 8,7,5,4 use DSL now. I installed some apps for them and installed kdm for easier login and they really enjoy it. They each select their login from the list and type in their passwords to get in. The older ones start their own apps from the desktop (gcompris, tuxpaint, etc...) and I don't need to worry about them "mucking something up" because they only have limited access. If they mess things up for thier login I can just delete them and copy from one of the others to get them back. I customized their menus so they only have limited access from the desktop and gave them their own group. They really like DSL.

Wow...now with all the DSL configuring you wont have much spare time to....ehem...

hehe

Brian
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brianw

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Posted: Oct. 05 2005,21:49

Quote (AwPhuch @ Oct. 05 2005,13:32)

Wow...now with all the DSL configuring you wont have much spare time to....ehem...

Already took care of that...

Surprisingly, now that I have things set up (just have it installed on my laptop for now and we share it) all I have to do is update the desktop and menu when I add stuff for them. I am just in the learning phase for DSL and I am getting to know where/what to do to make things easy. Now my only obstacle to having a server setup is to figure out how to get the sound to be on the X terminal (old laptop running DSL and X server and XDMPC) while the app is running on the app server (faster machine running KDM and all the apps the user runs). I imagine I will need to find out how to have a sound daemon enabled on the X terminal and have the app server send the sound similar to the way the X info is sent.

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Posted: Oct. 23 2005,05:19

My two daughters 8yrs and 10yrs are lovin DSL, they can write email, surf the web, and play runescape.

I found DSL while looking for micro linux distro to put on these old Pii 366 laptops, ones a thinkpad celeron, ones a gateway solo2500 pentium. I thought the thinkpad would be the bear, it was easy, the gateway is breaking me though.

Kids are lovin the IBM iSeries thinkpad that i got up and running, even got wireless networking going on it with an rt2500 based nic.

Anyone out there got a Gateway Solo 2500 magicgraph 128XD thats got agp enabled? or a xfree86.dsl hand holding how to?

Thanks,
Rob

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