Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
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Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
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Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#2What an unfortunate name... I can only imagine telling a young kid he uses "Doo Doo Linux"
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#3The home page is all about booting from CD-ROM drives but luckily it boots also from USB keys http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/documentation-7/artic...
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#4What an unfortunate name... I can only imagine telling a young kid he uses "Doo Doo Linux"
I'm not an English native speaker and I don't live in an English speaking country so I may miss something. Doo Doo sounds fine to me, very childish.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#5What an unfortunate name... I can only imagine telling a young kid he uses "Doo Doo Linux"
I'm not an English native speaker and I don't live in an English speaking country so I may miss something. Doo Doo sounds fine to me, very childish.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#6From their "Translator's FAQ" (which I think is meant for volunteers to help with localization):
"How should I tell to pronounce DoudouLinux?
In French and Chinese it is pronounced “doodoolinux”. However as the word “doodoo” has a weird meaning in slang American English, we recommend English-speakers to say it as if it was an English word, the way they prefer to say it. We also ask to not write “doodoolinux” at all to avoid any confusion (except here!). Of course if pronouncing the word the French way has no awful meaning in your language, please tell to use this pronunciation."
I'm not sure I understand what they mean by "say it as if it was an English word" though.
* http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/contribute/translate-...
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#7Reminds me a bit of the One Laptop Per Child project, which according to some people is a little bit defunct. They produced a distro called Sugar (https://www.sugarlabs.org) that might be worth looking into.
Now tablets have largely overcome laptops as an inexpensive computing device for children.
EDIT: not defunct as people let me know. thanks for pointing this out.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#8Where does this mention home schooling?
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#9What an unfortunate name... I can only imagine telling a young kid he uses "Doo Doo Linux"
I'm not an English native speaker and I don't live in an English speaking country so I may miss something. Doo Doo sounds fine to me, very childish.
Childish is an ironic way to describe it. :) It is a term that only small children use, but almost all American children at least know what it means even if they don't say it all the time.
I just realized that it's strange that there would be a slang term only used by children, but that remained in use by generation after generation of children over a period of at a minimum 50 years but probably much longer.
I'm not a parent, but I suspect that it's a word used by American parents during potty training, hence its longevity.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#10From their "Translator's FAQ" (which I think is meant for volunteers to help with localization): "How should I tell to pronounce DoudouLinux? In French and Chinese it is pronounced “doodoolinux”. However as the word “doodoo” has a weird meaning in slang American English, we recommend English-speakers to say it as if it was an English word, the way they prefer to say it. We also ask to not write “doodoolinux” at all t…
Starting out with a name that has a weird meaning in English - not a good idea. It's difficult to find a name that sounds good in all languages and has no offending meaning, but it's not impossible.