[geeks] Little Kids + Unix

Kenneth Dunn luser at xtra.co.nz
Sun Jan 27 14:07:12 CST 2002


Have you considered using Tarantella was he can access Unix apps
from a Java enabled web browser ? www.tarantella.com

You'd have to reinstall it every 30 days on the server, but that
is no biggie.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Michael Dombrowski wrote:

> My little brother has a PC in his room which he uses primarily for
> playing games and web surfing. I'd like to introduce him to unix and
> that there is a way of doing things other than PCs. What would you
> all recommend to get a 10yr interested in Unix? I'm probably gonna
> stick an XTerm in his room and have it logon to my Ultra30 so there's
> a pretty beefy machine to run whatever. I was thinking maybe some
> sort of basic with support for graphics but I don't know if that
> would be best. Only other requirement is that it look decent with
> only 8bit graphics.



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