Is Edubuntu dead? No updates in over a year. https://www.edubuntu.org
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
#22Doudou, tu viens plus aux soirées ?
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#23Doudou, tu viens plus aux soirées ?
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#24Reminds 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.
> which according to some people is a little bit defunct
The blog is active. http://blog.laptop.org/
> Now tablets have largely overcome laptops as an inexpensive computing device for children.
Children get exposed to horrible devices a lot. The One Laptop Per Child project gives children a device that is sturdy, energy efficient, easy to repair, and comes with full editable source code and no ties to brainwashing data thieves like Google and Facebook.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#25From 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…
Looks like "dough dough" or "dow dow" to me, an English native speaker.
Interesting - I would have gone with "Doo Doo", but I don't think there are standard English phonetic rules for this particular name. Mentally though knowing that it has French origins, I think I just compared it to other French words I know with "ou" when written out in english.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#26From 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…
I think in Chinese it would be pronounced more like doughdough?
As in "as dead as a Dodo".
1. naming things
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Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
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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…
It is not strange at all. Some languages have a whole way of speaking only used by children.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
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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.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/doo-doo
Thanks. Yeah, let's say it's a choice that risks undervaluing the product ;-)
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#29Personally i don't understand why you need a 7 and under child to use a computer. And 7 year olds pick up computer just as quickly as an adult would if they used computers for the first time
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doudou [1] is French for a kid's favorite, day and night, bring everywhere teddy bear. You can see further francophone influence in the use of SPIP (the CMS used for the website). [1] http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-anglais/doudou
But in English, a "Doo-doo" is one of a kids favourite pass times before they are capable of doing much other than drinking milk and sleeping. If Google "doo doo", and you get a lot of pictures of excrement (NSFW, probably).
You should bring that to the attention of the developers.