Showing posts with label Children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children. Show all posts

Linux has been a versatile operating system catering the needs of people from all walks of life. Unlike Windows and Mac, which only target the general consumers, Linux offer various specialized distributions for engineers, doctors, religious people, and even kids. Yes, kids. Linux, thanks to its openness, has allowed many developers to create distributions made especially for kids of different age groups.

These distributions aren’t made to teach C++ programming for kids. Instead, they are normal, easy to use distros with user interfaces specially designed for the young ones.

GCompris is a high quality educational game contains many educative activities for children aged 2 to 10 years old. It divided into some categories, each category contains many activities:

  • computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
  • algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
  • science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation ...
  • geography: place the country on the map
  • games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
  • reading: reading practice
  • other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, ...

OOo4kids is OpenOffice.orf remix for Children, especially for 7 -12 years old. The key points of this remix are:

  • Easier installation
  • Adapted user interface
  • New start center
  • New fonts "education"
  • User preferences simplified
  • Password protection
  • User levels for each age ranges



DoudouLinux 1.0 (read: DueDueLinux) Lenny Debian-based distros is the operating system aimed at children aged 2-12 years, designed to be both educational and fun. It can be used from a CD/DVD or an USB stick so you don't have to install it. It uses LXDE desktop OS and supports 15 languages, namely Arabic, English, Chinese, Dutch, Bahasa, French, Greek, Italian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Serbian, Swedish and Ukrainian.