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(Unverified)Dec 30th 2009 12:01AM
I think as far as educational youngling software goes the best I have come across so far is 'Qimo'. My 3 year old took immediately to Packid, a pacman clone in the Childsplay package included on the live cd, it also includes the Tux4kids and EToys packages which you've already covered, as well as a few others I think. I'm sure he'll get into these other more advanced programs as the months roll on.
It doesn't cover any Bible, Hindi or Qur'an related teachings, as far as I can tell although I have yet to fully test for hypnotic suggestions hidden deep within the source code.
The Qimo OS has been a great way to help introduce my son to IT without confusing him by using a radically different operating system that he sees mammy or daddy using on a day to day basis, or taking him away from the same basic controls he's used to using when exploring the kid friendly websites that he already frequents.
I currently just run it from a live cd as the old lap top I have earmarked for him is so old it’s [insert yo mama joke].
I definitely want to go further down this road than just having it as a temporary stand in when he wants some computer destroying time though, so I’ll be checking all alternatives out.
(Unverified)Dec 30th 2009 4:36AM
I've heard good things about this one too, and I will let my daughter try it. She'll be 3 in February, and she should start doing something else than just watch YouTube videos on the computer.... :-)