Yeah, Knoppix was kind of a ‘Tucows vibe’ distro. Pretty approachable.
Zen Linux was another short-lived 2005 liveDistro, which had a nice feel and Art.
Also, installing all https://trisquel.info/ versions side-by-side and doing a 17 year fast-forward would be cool.
Or auto-asphyxiation.
DebianJr is the easiest pre-packaged distro for kids 7-12.
Under 12, I would keep it fully offline(remove NIC or blacklist MAC address.
Install a local wikipedia instance (or simple-wikipedia) for reference, and give them thumb drives/DVDs for media.
For the fully libre start to life, install Trisquel GNU/Linux and use the DebJr package list to install required software.
Audacious can correctly read and display winamp skin files (.wsz).
Get them from archive.org
97,133 search hits for ‘winamp skin’ are listed.
https://archive.org/search?query=winamp+skin
One of the old classic skins was sketch_skin
https://archive.org/details/winampskin_sketch_skin
(Press play)
Expect automates things, based on text-input captured from a terminal.
Not sure if it has been extended/hacked to take sound as an input.
I chmod 755 each manually. I’ve never tried the automatic way, sounds easier.
Yes, using bash on all boxen.
Scripts start with #!/bin/sh ,because, that gives quicker execution times.
Any simple aliases, I put in .bash_aliases
Tried tcsh and zsh around 30yrs ago, all bash since then.
He referring to a warm pringles can?
Good practice is to backup your D drive, before installing to C drive.
In case something goes wrong, etc.
I’ve used Webconverger previously to setup public facing kiosks with a browser hardcoded to a book-search address as the home page. Quite robust and most users could not break or break out of the browser environment.
Webconverger seems to be EOL this year though. RIP and thanks.
Search for ‘linux kiosk’ to find other options. (Seems like Porteus is the go-to these days)
I used it in a university course in '95, not sure what distro, but customising your shell prompt, and setting automatic timed updates for the wallpaper in tvwm certainly felt like the future. Different and electric.
We would play the linux shareware first release of quake in 12-16 player. Hiding the executable by renaming it ekauq… didn’t work, still got removed from our directories.
There were installfests at the local LUG, which were a fun way to share tips and help others.
One Linux support business existed in our town in the 90s, installing and fixing Linux boxen for businesses. Mostly home/hobby use though.
Slashdot.org was covering the majority of Linux news. Either MS FUD or the nonsense SCO lawsuit, amongst all the positive advances.
Linux conferences were a fun way to make it more real and see many of the big names behind the movement and technologies.
Installed RedHat 4 or 5.1 around 98 and then found the power of Debian. Currently running Trisquel GNU/Linux because it is a fully libre distro with no proprietary blobs or other obfuscated parts.
Many thanks to RMS and all FLOSS contributors, there is such an incredible spectrum of tools available for free use. It has been great to see the progression and expansion over the decades.