Out of the mouth of babes: Linux is Better
It was hard to believe, but early Saturday morning my kids snuck downstairs, grabbed my laptop out of the bag and started using it for fun and games. What was more surprising was the fact that they chose my laptop running Fedora, rather than the family PC running Windows with all of the kids games and edutainment packages.
When I asked my son why he had snatched my laptop instead of using the family PC, he replied without hesitation: "Because Linux is better."
After some more fact finding, I learned what was the underlying reason. I had recently installed the latest K12ltsp.org release on the laptop.
This is a full fledged Fedora combining the extensive work of the LTSP (linux terminal server project) as well as the added resources and programs included for use by Kindergarten through 12th grade acedemics. This release allows other PCs to run as terminals connected to a single Linux server and has been used world-wide to setup Linux classrooms. I must also give substantial credit to the teams of folks who write the many tools and applications for the KDE desktop.
But frankly, my kids couldn't care less about these tidbits. Instead, what really attracted them to the laptop were those countless unique educational games and tools specifically tailored for their ages.
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The kids can't stop playing with Fedora, not ONE single mention of Ubuntu anywhere.
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Ubuntu is lame as a duck- not the metaphorical lame duck, but more like a real duck that hurt its leg, maybe by stepping on a land mine.