Linux for children 4.5 year old 451

In a message on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:04:31 GMT, wrote :

Some totally ramdom thoughts:

I've been bringing by pure-Linux Laptop when I visit my sister. I have a young niece, who is now 14 and uses MacOS 9-MacOSX mostly. When she was a few years younger, she played some games on my Linux laptop:

1) xbill (Yet again, the fate of the world rests in your hands! An evil computer hacker, known only by his handle 'Bill', has created the ultimate computer virus. A virus so powerful that is has the power to transmute an ordinary computer into a toaster oven. (oooh!) 'Bill' has cloned himself into a billion-jillion micro-Bills. There sole purpose is to deliver the nefarious virus, which has been cleverly disguised as a popular operating system.)

xbill should be available for all version of Linux.

2) TuxGoesFishing available from Deepwoods Software: ftp:--ftp.deepsoft.com-pub-deepwoods-Other-TuxGoesFishing.tar.gz (This version is 'silent'. I have an updated version with sound somewhere.) This is a simple Tcl-Tk script that involves a tank of moving fish and changes the cursor to Tux. Clicking on a fish (Tux's beak is the hot spot) causes the fish to disapear and some text to appear. The version with sound play a small sound file (me reading the text).

I know also that the two young boys of one of the grad students at UMbutt enjoyed the various KDE games that are available (kastorids and kspacewar for example).

Also while surfing last night I cam across: