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Comment any (Score 1) 179

Personally, I've done stock Lubuntu on old hardware with shortcuts for a browser with PBS kids as homepage, a few local movies, GCompris, Tux Paint, LibreOffice Writer, and when they got a little older, Minecraft, Steam. If they are not yet used to a mouse, I highly recommend a one button kid-sized version like the Chester Mouse, this made a huge difference in usability / frustration [especially since they liked to play with scroll wheel a lot]. Overall, whatever distro you are most comfortable with is probably good enough, they will likely only ever use the shortcuts on the desktop until older*. * Most likely, I claim no liability for whatever random you-tubes they find or terminals they open. Their account will not be on the sudo list, right? :-)

Comment Re:Neat, but not really needed... (Score 1) 164

I have an original model B with 256mb ram that still runs as my personal web and Mumble [VoIP] sever!

My daughter has a model 2B that she plays with, I might considering replacing it with the 3B+ as half the time she uses it for playing music via you tube and that can get laggy at times.... but to be fair, that was not an original use case when getting her the Pi. :-)

I also have a couple Pi B+ setup as cameras, but if I was doing that project now I would get 3B or 3B+ for the integrated WiFi and avoid running Ethernet cables.

Comment put in co in coprocessor! (Score 1) 119

On first glance I immediately dismissed the "security" bit in the preview as click-bait... The interesting idea, at least to me, is the idea of having low power ARM acting like a hybrid south-bridge that functions as CPU for simple web browsing or media playback [I think these may already exist in some forms]. Unfortunately while there is a brief mention of the ARM chip handling sound there was not much other detail. I would guess the difficulty is in how to seamlessly transfer data and processing to the Intel CPU when needed.... so had hoped that's what this would be about. I suppose I read way too much into "coprocessor" in the title... but forming strong opinions on as little information as possible is what Slashdot is about after-all :-)

Comment Re:My social network is txt (Score 1) 119

Then I go to bed so I could wake up at 5:30 am and walk to school. Five miles away through the snow, uphill each way.

You had it easy. We had to crawl 10 miles each way through the snow over broken glass on our knees, dodging mortar rounds and horny priests.

Broken glass? ...Mortar rounds? ...Psst! If only I could only have been so lucky!
We had to walk on our hands 20 miles each way over sharp volcanic rock, and could only dream of piles of snow, since it was still hot!

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