[orca-list] for kids was Re: Further Advice on Distributions

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

sounds like ubuntu is it then for me and to keep my son safe on the 
internet. well safer than he is with windows and the windows version of 
steam. in windows7 and if he had 10 he went wild got malware and random 
people on steam giving him all kinds of games. not good. and he wants 
grand theft auto five? no absolutely not!

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On 8/28/2015 6:52 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Also, I found that I could not go into my edxonline Linux course using 
> Trisquel's browser Icecat.  If memory serves, I may not even have been 
> able to log in.  I wrote to the EDX folks about this, and was told 
> essentially that (1) their site is pretty free as in freedom and (2) 
> it would take too much revamping to accommodate Icecat. I'm certainly 
> not saying Trisquel doesn't have considerable virtues, only that this 
> sort of thing can punch you in the cyberface and you won't know where 
> the punch came from.
>
> Al
>
> On 8/28/2015 6:25 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > Trisquel is the only one that stands out as bding accessible with out 
> > hassles.
> > These are mostly if not all 100% free distros however, and you will 
> > not have adccess to codecs for playing non free media types, and some 
> > other software
> > you might want might require jumping through an extra hoop or two.
> > Installing Linux is very easy fro a blind person, so you do not need 
> > to limit yourself to what you can get preinstalled.
> > Installation takes less than an hour in most cases, with you just 
> > sitting there half of more than half of the time...
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