Introducing a Child to Constructive Computer Use?

trevorgensch asks: "I have a young boy, about 6 years old, who is starting to take an interest in the computer I seem to spend too much time at lately. Lots of Slashdot readers out there must have had experiences with their young child wanting to learn more. I am all for it! But where to start? He has had a bit of experience with the Internet and children's sites and official sites of Pixar and Disney movies, but he wants more. Any pointers?"

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Lego

[brilinux]

I showed my (now 7 year old) brother to Lego's website. It has a lot of games there, but many of them are of an educational type too. It is, howver, rather flash intensive, but my brother enjoys it.

Re:Get him a PC, and :

[Otter]

Get him reading Linux Kernel Internals and other things.

I don't see how coddling the child does him any good in the long run. Give the 6-year-old a copy of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and have him write his own damn OS.