From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 22:53:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE6216A420 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:53:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A85943D46 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:53:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A47D364D0098; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:53:49 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7KMt74H017589; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j7KMsvTb017570; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: "Gayn Winters" References: <03c401c5a45b$2eaa5060$c901a8c0@workdog> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:54:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <03c401c5a45b$2eaa5060$c901a8c0@workdog> (Gayn Winters's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:12:12 -0700") Message-ID: <8oek8op6bi.k8o@mail.opusnet.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:53:53 -0000 "Gayn Winters" 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. :)