Other An Operating System For Kids

Hi Guy's

I have a spare laptop and desktop which I would like to put to good use for my daughter. She is 5 and really wants to use either my PC or the wifes laptop/tablet. It would be awesome for her to have her own device that she can use (supervised of course)and would be a benefit to her.

I would prefer something that didn't require a base install of windows and perhaps was a modified version of Linux. I'm happy to pay as long as it comes with educational games etc.

 

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-operating-system-kids.htm

http://www.kiddix-computing.com/home/index.php

 

Man, my daughter is 5 next month. I wanted to build her a little mini-itx pc to use for some educational games to get her used to a computer I wanted to do without having windows.This is super useful for me as well.

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Thanks Teelzebub. I have downloaded the DouDou Linux to try out tonight. It looks like she should enjoy

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I ran the DouDou Linux but I wasn't impressed much. It all seems very dated and buggy. I will let the daughter have a play tonight but I'm still going to try a different OS.

 

Sorry to hear that mate heres another might be better

http://www.easybitskids.com/

 

Lokks worth a try. I just started a trial of this http://kidoz.net/ Pricing seems reasonable but only downside is it requires a base install of Windows.

 

Install Debian, don't install the GUI. Sit her down in front of it and tell there'll be no ice-cream until she's set up a WAN facing FTP server.

That'll learn her.