Hi guys, i have an old Toshiba laptop which has an old Celeron in it <1GB i'm sure. It has 198MB Ram in it. It currently has Win2k on it.
My 4 year old likes to play on it, but its a bit slow.
Can anyone recommend a version og linux that might be a bit faster and that he could on with. He likes the internet, and also i'd like him (even at this early age) to have some understanding of linux.
He picks up little bits like most 4 year olds.
Any suggestions would be great.

darren

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Thanks orbital, appreciate your fast reply.

Cheers

DSL (Damn small linux) is optimized for low-end hardware -- I've had it running on a 200MHZ pentium w/ 80MB's of RAM.

Actually, the box you describe doesn't sound too bad. I also have redhat9 running on a 500mhz/128MB box -- runs a little slowly, but it is useable.

Hi fmwap. thanks for that. Couldn't get puppy as all the mirrors i tried didnt seem to work. I'll try damn DSL right now.

thanks again.
Darren

Wouldn't Windows be the safer bet, since you can run parental controls on it?

Linux generally doesn't have these. While it "might" be good for him to learn a Unix type OS, wait until he's at college - and he's grown up enough to know whats right/wrong!

Hi there thanks for the reply. My kids must just be odd then. All my children have computers (no parental stuff), and have done for about three and a half years. My 7 year old looks up nothing other than football. My daughter is eleven and looks at music or films on my server. The four year is interested in Spiderman, Shrek and Power Rangers and the films on my server.
None of them have looked at anything dodgy.
I monitor all the PC's very carefully.
But i do know theres naughty stuff out there. I've looked for it. :)
I opted in the end for a lite version of Win2k but this was so lite i couldn't join it to my domain. I ended up at sqaure one with Win2k back on it.

As long as you monitor it of course.

But I know a search for "Bert Sesame Street" has adult links on the first or second page of Google - so while they are innocent enough, I wasn't suggesting a 4 year old would not be, you never know.

The second there's a realistic, easy enough to use, parental control on Linux - I dare say my family will be using it, it's come a long way in recent years.