FC 3 for a Kid on a Gateway Profile 3

[Giulio Sorrentino]

Deep Thinker wrote:

>Hello All,
>
> I have just downloaded the first disk to Fedora Core 3. My boss has
>an old Gateway Profile 3 (Pentium III, 1GHz, 256 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard
>Drive, CDBurner/DVD ROM) and he wants me to install Linux on it for
>him to play with and for his kids to play games on.
>
> I chose Fedora because of the reviews I have read concerning ease of
>use and community support.
>These folks aren't going to want to do any elaborate system maintenace
>or updating. The parents will want to use the machine for browsing the
>Internet, possibly to check mail, and my boss to get a little peak at
>"what all the Linux fuss is about."
>
> This set up could possibly be a stepping stone for allowing me to
>replace some of the older workstation operating systems at work with
>Linux, so I need to get this as clean and dependable as possible.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as far as childrens educations games
>that will work well with FC 3? I imagine Open Office and Firefox will
>be enough for the parents to get started with.
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance, 
>  
>
For children education games you should install kdeedu packages.
It contains many useful software such as kstars,  klazium, klatin, 
ktouch and kturtle
For mail client I suggest you thunderbird.