Educational/Children Game KNOPPIX Version

Hi,

Would anybody be interested in creating a version of Knoppix which would include mainly children games and educational programs?

I have 2 you children at home, and they love to play around with PC, but:
1) I am allways afraid that they may delete some files or programs
2) I do not like to install piles of game programs (a lot of them not interesting)

A "educational/children game" version of Knoppix would enable them to get on the computer and play and learn at ease, without me worrying.
I am sure this could be interesting for persons with children at home (like me) or in educational environments.

Software could include:
- some games (for different age, very simple ones to maybe some arcades ones etc...).
- some educational software (math, spelling, lenguages, simple image editors/photos manipulation, sky maps, etc...).

Anybody interested? We would need to select the programs, and find someone who could set them up together in this special Knoppix version.

Thanks!

Chris

My computer auto-boots the CDROM, if I leave a CDROM in the drive. This would make the computer more child proof. Besides games, I think one should have AOL's AIM on the CDROM and have it autostart. With AIM and Firefox available, even young teenagers would find it hard to mess up a computer. They could surf the web all they wanted and never have to worry about viruses and spy-ware. If it had the full AOL software, that would even work for my grandmother. A no risk approach to getting on the internet.

I think your original message needs a wish list of games. Maybe some of your responders will make a list of great games.

I, too, would like to see an edu/games kids' edition.
Freeciv would be my top choice for must-have game
a typing tutor is #1 edu title for me.

I think it would be wise to have no qtparted, etc;
If we can eliminate set-writeable-partition and just have the boot scan
automount a knoppix.img we can have saved games, etc., without risk.

Another nice option would be a password file on the HD - not writeable, so it
should suffice - add a prog to standard knoppix to change root's password.
One could then password-protect the set-writeable, qtparted, etc.,

I would also add clamav if any mail or downloading is allowed.
(easy add, works fine on knoppix - needs 300Meg+ HD system knoppix.img to install)
(I have not tried the on-access or mail scanner)
see http://www.clamav.net/binary.htm for .deb info.
after editing the sources.list, then in root shell#:
apt-get update
apt-get install clamav
(or be sure you have a big swapfile - 130M+ - if you use kpackage)
We need a boot script to run freshclam before internet access is allowed.

I would like to see internet filtering also -
for broadband users, perhaps squidguard? - see
http://cri.univ-tlse1.fr/documentati...dguard_en.html
It needs squid and sleepycat's version of Berkeley Database. Get source at
ftp://ftp.univ-tlse1.fr/pub/reseau/c...d-1.2.0.tar.gz
perhaps someone can do an auto-fetch script to get
ftp://ftp.univ-tlse1.fr/pub/reseau/c...cklists.tar.gz
so squidguard always has an up-to-date blocklist before allowing internet access.
(.squid half is old dups - don't unpack it)

A whitelist on CD could provide backup if download failed,
and allow some access while the 5Meg blacklist is loaded.
It would be good to block non-root access to the database.
http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/
has config hints and a good 3M list at
http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/blacklists.tgz
including a spyware section. (you may want to whitelist yahoo.com)

This would need the password file to allow parents to
whitelist new sites like mail.yahoo.com if they like.