Den Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:42:40 -0800 skrev pg:
> The computers will be Windows 98SE based
Please don't. It's the worst possible OS to install for such a scenario.
It'll be unmaintainable for you, and (what's even worse) will teach the
kids that computers are inherently unreliable and not to be trusted. If
it has to be windows, try to get win2k licenses, it'll run on 256MB just
fine. If you don't have to stick to windows, try a linux (unfortunately
my personal favourite desktop, GNOME, won't quite run satisfactorily, but
XFce will, I have used it on a 48MB machine, and it's still easy to use
set up); for instance Ubuntu is a very easy to install distribution and
has plenty of flavours, including Xubuntu for which XFce is the primary
desktop.
I wonder if OLPC's Sugar is currently ****table to anything besides XOs,
it's designed exactly for the type of usage you have, so it'd be a
perfect fit.
As for programming environment, I can't really help with Logos, I have no
idea about them. I don't think there's any pre-packaged CL distro that
you could just give to kids for them to play with, especially the
graphical part is lacking. As Rainer suggests, there are several schemes
that concentrate on rich feedback, http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
is one
of the new things it seems. A Smalltalk would also do, they're all big on
the "play with things on the screen" side.
Cheers,
Maciej
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