On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Alan Bell < alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:
> Tuxpaint and Gcompris! > > great fun apps to play with. > To be honest I wouldn't worry too much about parental controls for a few > years, just put the cbeebies website as the browser home page and you > are done! > There's also a great maths arcade style game TuxMath? I think which mine love. I've done exactly this for my 7yr old, (desktop not netbook) which he's been using since about the same age. I do though add some icons for things like disney, dc and marvel comics dr who, cartoon network sites etc in the links bar. If he needs to search for homework, he sits with me and we do it together on mine. I've used cron and Zenity to shut it down with warnings every 5 minutes for 20 minutes before shutdown in the evenings and prevent startup before school time and after getting home (homework time). There's also a built in utility that enables configuration of a system wide policy for periods between breaks and duration of breaks, can't remember the name of it though. Ad blocking is worth having to stop them wandering off by clicking on some random ad that appears. If you get an Aspire One avoid the SSDs, battery performance is fantastic but the disk is slow as hell.
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