finally recognition + advice (Score 1)

wow finally we young slashdoters are getting some recognition. I have been coming to this site since i was thirteen or so, but to be more on topic i think a computer class for children teaching linux is a wonderful idea. I personally started on red hat as my first linux distro but i would recommend mandrake since it is prolly the easist. First i think skip the install it is easy enough to learn that on your own, also save the gui lessons and go straight to the shell scripts i think that those are the most important to learn first. I think for those kids that are older hand them a distro of linux and teach them how to setup a computer for dual boot, and the younger teach them dual boot and hand the cd to the parents, for sure (you'd be surprised how mad parents get when you forget to tell them you setup the computer to automatically boot into linux instead of windows at the lilo prompt...oooops). Be well advised that the unless the younger kids are huge geeks like i was then you should make sure that they get something that interests them more, though i think the 16 year olds that are knowledgeable would like the linux lessons.