DoudouLinux - The computer they prefer!

DoudouLinux is specially designed for children to make computer use as easy and pleasant as possible for them (and for their parents too! [1]). DoudouLinux provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to 12 years old and gives them an environment as easy to use as a gaming console. Kids can learn, discover and have fun without Dad and Mum always watching!

But DoudouLinux also makes it easy for Dad and Mum. Available as an autorun CDROM, DoudouLinux does not need installing. It does not touch the data in the computer it runs on, nor the system installed on the computer. Shipped with built-in content filtering, it prevents children from accidentally visiting unsavory web sites [2]. You can carry it everywhere and let children on any computer without worrying. DoudouLinux can be lent, offered, loaned, copied as often as you want. Just like they do on the school playground! This is fully legal, so DoudouLinux is really risk free from all points of view.

DoudouLinux also aims at making computers accessible to all children on earth, with no discrimination. For this reason the DoudouLinux.org web site lets you download full and free versions and will always do so. Moreover, DoudouLinux is available in many languages so that each child will feel comfortable when he begins reading. We currently support the following 28 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu and Ukrainian. Additionally, as an appetizer, we are proposing Hebrew, Indonesian, Turkish and Vietnamese. More than 60 languages can be generated [3], but translation quality is, unfortunately, not homogeneous between languages [4]. If you would like to help translating your language, please get in touch.

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Footnotes

[1] Anyway, Dad and Mum will need to practice at night if they don’t want to feel too ridiculous!

[2] This functionality is still under testing for several languages such as Arabic, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian, as well as the demonstration languages.

[3] DoudouLinux is already available for download in many languages, but it is possible to rebuild a DoudouLinux in many more languages.

[4] The CD translation progress can be browsed online on Transifex.

On the Web

• DoudouLinux @identi.ca (English)
  • 22 February 2013 – The development version 2013-02 will be out around 04.00 GMT (...)
  • 20 February 2013 – DoudouLinux ISO files can now be booted directly from an USB key, (...)
  • 20 February 2013 – More than 40 languages are now open for translation on Transifex (...)
  • 18 February 2013 – New DoudouLinux installer, give it a try! <link>
  • 15 February 2013 – Read the slideshow we wrote for InterTice: <link> (en, fr, (...)
  • 11 February 2013 – Next release is the development version 2013-02, this month. Then (...)
  • 10 February 2013 – DoudouLinux will be at Solutions Linux, 28th/29th May in Paris, a (...)
  • 7 February 2013 – @johanv Account creation on our forum is manually moderated by (...)
  • 7 February 2013 – DoudouLinux at InterTice 2013 in short: French teachers love it! (...)
  • 25 January 2013 – Our online project management tool Redmine is back online after (...)
• DoudouLinux dev’s blog (English)
  • 21 February 2013 – Booting a DoudouLinux ISO from an USB key
  • 18 February 2013 – A new installer for DoudouLinux
  • 19 January 2013 – DoudouLinux ISO relocalization
  • 1 December 2012 – Using Debian to install DoudouLinux

News items

• 20 February – New development release 2013-02

  We are glad to announce the latest development release 2013-02. This release is the latest one before the next stable version of DoudouLinux, the version 2.0 Hyperborea planned for April/May and (...) Read more…

• 12 November 2012 – New development release 2012-10

  It’s been a long time since an official development release has been published —so now here it is: DoudouLinux version 2012-10 is out! If you don’t follow our dailybuilds, our identi.ca account or (...) Read more…

• 1 July 2012 – Gondwana 1.2 is out!

  Gondwana, the stable version of DoudouLinux, has been updated to version 1.2. The changes are the following: official support for Finnish, Galician, and Norwegian (Nynorsk) —which increases the (...) Read more…

• 26 March 2012 – New development release 2012-03

  This latest development release is a bit late but it is finally out! It is still based on Debian Squeeze, the current stable release of Debian. Therefore our development version is perfectly (...) Read more…

• 9 December 2011 – New development release 2011-11

  This development release is a bit late but it is finally out! This is our second build based on Debian Squeeze, the current stable release of Debian. Therefore our development version is (...) Read more…

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