Edubuntu - Linux For Young Human Beings!

hzs202 writes "Are you a Linux user? Are you a parent? If so there is something that the two have in common. Edubuntu is a newly released fork of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is targeted at children from the ages of 5-12 years old. There are lots of games and even kindergarten appropriate activities for children. The developers and supporters of Edubuntu have developed a Manifesto which lays out the intent and objective of this open-source and freely distributed OS development effort. The current stable version is Edubuntu 5.10 'Breezy Badger', the same as Ubuntu 5.10's alias. Edubuntu comes complete with installations for x86 and AMD64 architecture. Edubuntu will be a nice addition to your home-network."

parents who use linux?

[JebusIsLord]

Are you a Linux user? Are you a parent?

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Excellent!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll have the only five year old that knows how to edit an fstab file!

Re:Excellent

[Eli Gottlieb]

You got me on my own foolishness. Still, if I ran things they'd all be in programming classes during elementary school and could write their own damned OS by the time they graduated high school.

Re:it looks like a penis

[Exodious]

Pfff. Maybe yours doesn't.

Where is the killer app?

[TheQuantumShift]

Or does apt-get install Oregon Trail work...

Re:Excellent

[aywwts4]

You make linux sound one step away from the tobacco industry. 'Hook em while they are young.'

Re:Curious

[ettlz]

Actually are thier any open source programs that will help improve typing skills. Vi doesn't count.

Emacs.

Linux is 14 years old

[lheal]

I'm a father of two, and a Linux/Unix sysadmin.

I put Linux (FC4 currently) on my kids' computers. They like it just fine, and neither of them are nerds.

Strange thing, they do fight over which is better, vi or that other editor.

Re:Ubuntu provides an excellent base.

[Anonymous Coward]

Other possible Ubuntu spinoffs:

Retarduntu: Kubuntu with an XP theme. Konqi offers hugs and high fives everytime you manage to launch an app.

Pr0n0buntu: I heard it has a custom taskbar icon to switch mice from right to left-handed in one click.

Slashbuntu: the welcome screen says "Frist psot!" and you get CowboyNeal as your wallpaper.

Micro$untu: because some folks just can't let go of those nostalgic GPF days. See "Retarduntu"

RTFMuntu: Gentoo's younger brother.

Debuntu: Debian Is Not Ubuntu -- take that, you crazy recursive-naming bastards!

Taking the "Education" out of "Edu"

[chefmonkey]

I'm deeply suspicious of a so-called "educational" distribution put together by people who can't seem to spell "calendar" correctly [edubuntu.org].

Re:Ubuntu provides an excellent base.

[CyricZ]

Pr0n0buntu: I heard it has a custom taskbar icon to switch mice from right to left-handed in one click.

Why don't you just learn to masturbate with your left hand?

My Kids love TuxPaint

[Anonymous Coward]

running on Suse 10 at the moment ... but I think I will check this out.
I am thinking of getting a second old PC so that they can have one each.

My 6 year old has just run a DOS attack on her grandmother.

First she used social engineering to obtain her password,
then she changed it. :-)

I Had To Do this

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Re:Linux is 14 years old

[jbellows_20]

Strange thing, they do fight over which is better, vi or that other editor.

And you say they aren't nerds?

Re:Ubuntu provides an excellent base.

[oztiks]

I think more so this distro should be acklowedged by Toy vendors, it would be a real useful tool to use in kids products such as a "tickle me tux".

When ever you press his belly he spouts a random man entry [ed.ac.uk].

NOW THATS LEARNING! :)

Re:NetNanny?

[miyako]

There are no sites censored by default, but there is a handy command in Edbuntu to help filter sites you don't want you kids to see, just drop to a shell and run
vi /etc/hosts
as root. :)

Re:Ubuntu provides an excellent base.

[chrj]

Debuntu: Debian Is Not Ubuntu -- take that, you crazy recursive-naming bastards!

That's not recursive.

Awwww

[deaddrunk]

"Honey, junior said his first RTFM!"

Re:Ubuntu provides an excellent base.

[aichpvee]

I think I'll make my own distro, "Ubuntu Construction Kit", designed for creating Ubuntu-based distributions. It will of course be based on Slack.