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| han` | how come gbrainy isn't a part of edubuntu, seems like a good program for it | 21:21 |
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| han` | also, is there a distro out there that is like super kid friendly? ie big buttons and stuff so a kid can navigate the OS? | 21:24 |
| LaserJock | han`: what is gbrainy? | 21:32 |
| pygi | LaserJock, new app on the block, C# | 21:32 |
| pygi | game of logic | 21:32 |
| LaserJock | han`: I think other than Edubuntu, perhaps OLPCs Sugar interface is the most kid-friendly | 21:32 |
| pygi | and EEE PC's interface perhaps | 21:33 |
| laga | i dont think the EEE PC one is open source | 21:33 |
| pygi | han`, I dont think gbrainy was out in time for gutsy | 21:33 |
| LaserJock | isn't EEEPC just a standard linux interface? | 21:35 |
| pygi | LaserJock, nop, not really | 21:36 |
| LaserJock | I thought they just slapped a distro on there, hmm | 21:36 |
| han` | LaserJock, gbrainy is a set of logic, memory, # puzzles | 21:36 |
| han` | oh yeah, the eee pc is a good idea | 21:37 |
| pygi | LaserJock, sec | 21:37 |
| han` | probably a development version or something | 21:37 |
| pygi | http://picasaweb.google.hr/lh/searchbrowse?q=EEEPC+screenshots&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wq#1 | 21:37 |
| han` | LaserJock, it looks like gbrainy isn't even in the package manager, but i just installed it on edubuntu using the ubuntu package and it works well | 21:37 |
| han` | it's a little tough for kids, maybe high school kids+ | 21:37 |
| pygi | han`, as I told you ... it wasnt out before gutsy me thinks :) | 21:37 |
| LaserJock | well, it's not even in hardy | 21:38 |
| LaserJock | han`: a package has to be in the archives before we ship it ;-) | 21:38 |
| han` | yeah ok, well consider it a suggestion then :) | 21:38 |
| LaserJock | thanks for the suggestion :-) | 21:38 |
| LaserJock | we could use some newer apps | 21:38 |
| LaserJock | I'm not sure what the current situation is with the disks and how much room we'll have | 21:39 |
| han` | it's fairly polished, but high difficulty | 21:39 |
| han` | it is like the hardest questions on the math SAT i would say, in terms of difficulty | 21:39 |
| LaserJock | I hope it's quite a bit and we can add lots of good packages | 21:39 |
| pygi | laga, they use xandros distribution | 21:39 |
| LaserJock | han`: excellent | 21:39 |
| laga | pygi: yes, the commercial version. | 21:39 |
| laga | their user interface is still not OSS | 21:40 |
| pygi | laga, perhaps ... but hopefully it'll become soon | 21:40 |
| laga | true | 21:40 |
| LaserJock | meh | 21:40 |
| pygi | what? :P | 21:41 |
| LaserJock | I don't really care | 21:41 |
| han` | i'm looking at the OLPC site | 21:41 |
| LaserJock | it's an interesting look interface, but it's nothing spectacular | 21:41 |
| pygi | :P | 21:42 |
| LaserJock | it's mostly just big icons | 21:42 |
| LaserJock | the top bar may be interesting, but I bet most of the "look" is due to having a low-res screen | 21:43 |
| han` | i'm thinking that i could get "Sugar" running on a linux install, which is the OLPC environment | 21:43 |
| LaserJock | han`: I believe we have an emulator | 21:44 |
| LaserJock | hmm, or maybe it's just in a PPA | 21:44 |
| * pygi thinks there are sugar packages | 21:45 | |
| pygi | han`, Sugar *is* build on top of fedora-like linux | 21:45 |
| han` | reading sugar on ubuntu linux from the olpc wiki | 21:46 |
| LaserJock | ah, here we go: https://launchpad.net/~jani/+archive | 21:47 |
| han` | yep i'm addingithat to my sources | 21:47 |
| han` | heh, well i'll see how this goes, running emulated sugar inside a virtualized edubuntu on a mac lol | 21:54 |
| LaserJock | heh | 21:54 |
| LaserJock | vmware fusion? | 21:54 |
| han` | yeah | 21:55 |
| han` | trying it out | 21:55 |
| han` | so the emulator just seems to start up x... | 21:55 |
| LaserJock | han`: you might want to read http://janimo.blogspot.com/search/label/en | 21:57 |
| han` | got it working | 22:02 |
| han` | trippy i see people in my neighborhood | 22:02 |
| han` | didn't expect the network stuff to work | 22:03 |
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