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Date:      Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:54:57 -0700
From:      garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
Message-ID:  <8oek8op6bi.k8o@mail.opusnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <03c401c5a45b$2eaa5060$c901a8c0@workdog> (Gayn Winters's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:12:12 -0700")
References:  <03c401c5a45b$2eaa5060$c901a8c0@workdog>

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"Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> writes:

> Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a "small OS"?

PicoBSD is almost certainly not what you're looking for.
All of the useful PicoBSD documentation is pretty-much in the manpage
and in a few files under /usr/src/release/picobsd/; it's just a
way of building a FreeBSD OS that is stripped way down.

> Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before
> there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports?

With X and the lang/python port, the games/pysol port has a many
dozens of solitare card games that I would have liked at 10, but it
might not do much for today's kids.  And games/scrabble is about the
only other one I've tried except xboing which would be fun but no
longer works for me.  games/xbill could be considered educational, I
suppose. :)



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