Best Option for Kid's System?

Soooooooo I'm working on a system for my young daughter, and I'd like to throw a system together that will be just for her.

Now, I know I'm posting in the Windows OS forum, but I've also looked at Linux distrobutions like Kiddix, Qimo and KIDO'Z. While these all look respectable, I'm also open to a modified Windows shell that would work as well.

Has anyone had experience with building kid systems that may want to shed light on what the best platform software to utilize is?

 

I never got the point about why kid-oriented OSes exist. I'd imagine that the best, and simplest, way to go about this is to just install vanilla Windows or a Linux distro and just filter your internet to restrict non-PG stuff. Linux would probably be the better option since it's no-cost, you don't have to worry about OS issues as much (just separate /home from the rest of the system, backup, and replace any corrupted /home with the backup /home to restore to a working condition), and imo it's a great programming environment (gEdit, gcc, and Terminal are working pretty swell for me and C, for example). I'd imagine that at school, the kid will learn Windows as well, so you get the best of both worlds in a nutshell (valuable skillsets in the future, if they go into a computer-oriented field).

 

I agree, go with Windows, create a non admin user account for her, show her the basics. Find something she likes and teach her using that, it works much better although it might try your patience. Most Internet browsers support some form of parental control too and set up an ad blocker. It will require a bit of work on your part, but it will get her used to the OS she'll likely encounter at school. How old is your daughter anyways?

 

It'd probably be safer to do the blocking on the router level, in case she gets clever enough to find out how to disable browser-level blocking or just decides to use a portable browser on a flash drive.

But yes, definitely don't give her admin rights on any of the systems. No need to have that for normal use.

 

Everything's already blocked at router level. I know, I know.. I grew up in DOS, GEM, Commodore, Windows and Red Hat, and have been scripting since I could walk -- I guess I was looking for more of the 'flashy' level of OS -- I mean, by all respects, I'd probably go with a bare basic Ubuntu distro, and modify everything to fit her needs. I was just seeing what else was out there..