[ale] Linux + Flash + Old laptop + kids

Robert Story rstory-l at 2006.revelstone.com
Sun Feb 26 08:21:26 EST 2006


My mom has given me and old laptop (K6-550 MHz, 64MB ram) and asked me to turn
it into something the grandkids can use to surf/play games. I've found
DamnSmallLinux to deal with the low memory size, but the problem I now have is
that Firefox + Flash doesn't work right on the primary site the kids use:
pbskids.org. The Teletubbies and Sesame Street portions have flash games, and
while the page detects the flash plugin and puts up a white box (where a right
click reveals the flash plugin menu), the flash game/movie doesn't
actually load. Thinking it might be the distro, I tried the site on my FC4
box, with the same results.

Anyone using Linux for a kid system have pbskids.org working successfully? Any
other suggestions?



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