GCompris is a hit with the kids and their Moms. One little girl asks for "OiGaki" drawing(TuxPaint) but mostly the kids keep finding things to do among the GCompris Activities. This time the 7(?) year old's Mom got involved with exploring chess moves. These two knew me from some sort of Xmas Santa event in December. After doing some board games (and maybe the trampoline and other things) they got started with the Freedom Software PCs late (after 7:30 during the 6]30 to 8:00 time slot) but it was great for me to see that the color matching game is more subtle or involved now. I guess it's a newer version of GCompris compared to the one I have on the ancient MacBook. I'm glad this newer PC fell into my hands, the screen is bigger and it doesn't make me nervous by getting really hot likes some of the older machines. I got an older Sony Vaio that gets hot and seems like part of the screen is melted or something. But I take it as a backup in case more than 2 or 3 people want the Freedom Software experience at the same time. I'll have to make sure I have still more backup PCs in the car just in case. One other Mom has been talking about bringin an old PC in for months. Some old guys are having PC troubles too, andi just free a 32bit Fujitsu machine for my 82yo wood stove buddy. It seems like he AND his peers have a bunch of older machines laying around. the old Fujitsu is slow (with Gnome, maybe I should have went with XFCE or LXDE but I know how to adjust everything with GNOME) but the screen and the rest is immaculate, very nice: it could be a good machine for learning to touchtype with tuxtype or for grandkids to playaround with GCompris, TuxPaint, fraqtive....Maybe learn English with Emacs Psychotherapists and by comparing the tutorials in different languages. DrRacket is on there too, along with Abiword and gnumeric, light-weight office-type applications in case the heavy-weight LibreOffice is too much for slow machines...
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