Very nice, but my 5yr old is discovering the mouse by playing Overwatch. Such an environment is probably more required for seniors than children.
Same. Overwatch is a great game. Especially fun to play together! :)
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
#42Very nice, but my 5yr old is discovering the mouse by playing Overwatch. Such an environment is probably more required for seniors than children.
Isnt overwatch a little too violent for a 5 yo?
I don't think so, I started my son on it when he was 4. To me it doesn't seem any more violent than old Looney Tunes cartoons where people get shot in the face or blown up or anvils dropped on them. And it's adorable to watch him do Reaper's DIE DIE DIE dance.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#43From 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.
They probably started small, found a cute name in French, for their French users.
(and there is nothing cuter than a doudou! try to google it!)
They even give a solution for the sensitive Americans: call it "dow dow" and forget about how is pronounced in French.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#44Reminds 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.
Not only laptops, netbooks as well.
I recently came to realize that on that price range you can find hybrid laptops (tablets with detachable keyboard) and that my Eee PC 1215B was probably one of the last models to be produced for that price range.
Which puts GNU/Linux outside this price range, unless parents get PIs and similar computers.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#45Earlier 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).
Then just google for doudou instead of doo-doo, and pronounce it dow dow...
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Kids here are still telling the exact same jokes kids were telling each other 45 years ago. Why would only adults have lasting memes?
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#47As the parent of a 1 year old, this looks great, can the content filtering be disabled, since this is a Live CD?
I wonder if there's any evidence whatsoever for content filtering actually being useful for children's development, as opposed to just reinforcing societal squeamishness.
The example they have[1] on their page is blocking the DuckDuck go result for "sex", whose first result is the Wikipedia article.
I really can't imagine why a child who's developed enough to search for that on their own isn't ready to read about it. To the extent that the parent needs to be around to explain things to the child I don't see how that needs to be done for sex in particular, as opposed to say economics.
1. http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/documentation-7/advan...
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#48Personally 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
Probably even quicker than an adult from my point of view. But then again, computers were much simpler in my childhood days. As an aside: It still bugs me that I don't have anymore access to this kind of fearless, joyfull learning today.
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#49Personally 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
Probably even quicker than an adult from my point of view. But then again, computers were much simpler in my childhood days. As an aside: It still bugs me that I don't have anymore access to this kind of fearless, joyfull learning today.
> It still bugs me that I don't have anymore access to this kind of fearless, joyfull learning today.
What do you mean by this? Would something like Arduino not fall under that category in your view?
Re: Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old
#50Where does this mention home schooling?
Sorry buddy! I am member of group called Alt India (Stands for Alternative Education in India) And focus on home schooling I got the mail from them titled home schooler OS and i thoought to share it here. Here is the original text: This is a homeschooler's must. Every homeschooler should have a copy - and use it! It is the future of computing... Download, burn a DVD, use and distribute freely without the fear - and e…
Ah, okay. Was just surprised because of the French origins of this distribution (AFAIK home schooling isn't an issue in highly secular France).