[ale] Educational Software for a Library

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:00, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> I am googling this, but wanted to toss it out to the list to see if I 
> could get any personal experiences on the topic.  My Dad works in the IT 
> Dept for his local Library, and has been instructed to look into using 
> Linux for some of their 'floor machines'.  These machines are going to 
> (initially) be used for children's use, specifically educational games 
> and filtered Internet.  My Dad is a staunch Windows user (well, 
> Microsoft, user, we got started around the MS DOS 2.x days), but is 
> going to 'give this Linux thing a shot', so he's asked me for some 
> suggestions on educational games for Linux.  The machines that they will 
> be using are in the 333MHz -> 650MHz range, so nothing fancy would be a 
> good idea.  I've suggested FC1 with Afterstep (I've tinkered around with 
> a few other distro's, but I always seem to go back to Red Hat / Fedora, 
> and Afterstep is a nice looking, small, and quick Window Manager that 
> I'm pretty familiar with).

My kids enjoy the games on the Knoppix variant put out by the Open
Source Education Foundation: http://osef.org/

Even if you don't want to go with that CD, it provides a great starting
point for a list of games and educational Linux software.

Michael