GCompris for Unnikkuttan
After some comparison by visiting multiple stores, we have decided to buy the Acer Aspire PC, which costs about 23000 (nowadays, I feel laptops are better than Desktops when we think about our wallet). It had a 1.6 Ghz, 1 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB , Intel pentium dual core processor , 1 gb ram, Intel 945 GC motherboard, DVD writer….
Well, the dealers has installed some games on the PC and just after booting the PC in Windows XP , Unnikkuttan started playing the games, mostly nothing to with education and more to do with the violence. Jose Uncle wasn’t that happy with what unnikkuttan doing with the PC.
Next week, I have visited Unnikkuttan’s home , this time with 3DVDs of Debian Etch Gnu/Linux. I have installed the Debian on the 40 GB partition of that massive 160 GB HDD. Installed the Debian Gnu/Linux. Both Unnikkuttan and Ponnu were amused by the installation steps of Debian. The whole installation took around 30 minutes (thanks to that high speed processor with 1 GB ram ).
After that it was the time for Education softwares. I have installed GCompris and Kdeedu and asked Unni and Ponnu to use it. They really liked those programs, I could guess it from their fight for playing the games. Again not willing to hurt Unnikkuttan’s desire for Racing, I have installed the Torcs race game for him. He got thrilled by that game anyway..
The PC boots directly into Debian and I have configured the Debian to have a “passwordless” entry to the Desktop to reduce the “password” problem for children. I know they are smart enough to remember the passwords. But unfortunately I dont’ remember my passwords these days. So I have decided to not to take a chance for myself 
Nowadays Unnikkuttan and ponnu are proud owners of a Debian Linux ( I have removed the GNU to for ease of the kids) machine. They are the future, let them play with the Gnu/Linux 
( I wonder why people are saying Linux is hard to use while children like Unnikkuttan and ponnu , with ages 4 and 6 respectively are using it without any problem)