[ale] Kid's Mode

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Tue May 8 18:24:46 EDT 2018


I am doing that, even working on install RetroArch with Emulastation on it.

Here is the spec of the MacBook.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.4-white-13-early-2008-penryn-specs.html

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just load up the kids games and edu stuff. Give her all the same stuff you
> use and she'll be super happy. Nothing better than a budding kid nerd :-)
>
> "Kid Mode" is in the network access :-) (block facebook just because) The
> kids don't go looking for adult stuff until it's pretty much time for the
> talks anyway.
>
> I had one of those and Fedora ran pretty well on it. Hmm. It may have been
> older than a 2008. It may have had a ppc chip. I don't recall if white
> macbooks were made with intel cpu or not.
>
> On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 18:05 -0400, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> A friend gave me a 2008 Mac Macbook ( White ), I was going to try to run
> mac os on but, it seem it can only go up to 10.8, nothing runs on that any
> more.
>
> So, I can't install openSUSE, it won't read the EFI correctly, so I have
> Debian 9 installed on it. This laptop is going to my 6 years old who had
> been begging me for a laptop. Is there a Kid Desktop? MacOS has that, I
> used it with my son. I have XFCE installed, I am willing to install
> something else if it gets the big button on the desk top.
>
> She had a tablet, but more and more she wants to be like her parents. This
> MacBook still has a lot to offer, 4 Gigs of Memory, 320 GB HD, and 2.4 GHz
> Core Dual, plus a great way for  her to learn.
>
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