Comments on: Ubuntu Sharing on a Saturday Morning!

By: nasrullah chinnarassen

nasrullah chinnarassen — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:00:27 +0000

i want to know how edubuntu is working in european schools;
thank you
nasrullah of mauritius

By: maxo

maxo — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:51:50 +0000

Great story. My two girls (5 and 3) love their tux paint as well. I have gcompris installed on their PC. The 5 year old has mastered a number of the games.
And the great thing about Linux is that they can log in to their computer from my room if they want to.

By: Og Maciel

Og Maciel — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:05:22 +0000

Hey Effie,

Thanks for your comment. I see that you have a little one too… Congratulations my friend, and keep up the great work!

Cheers,

By: jldugger

jldugger — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:59:34 +0000

Wow that’s a huge X-Chat names list. I usually try to minimize the various panes in favor of more chat text space.

Have you seen Scratch? It’s a visual programming language intended for teaching programming skills. It has variables, and static typing. And message passing. And a Logo-esque turtle system. And a website for sharing projects. And it’s open source.

Unfortunately they don’t support Linux yet. It mostly works, but you have to extract the image (it runs in a Squeak VM) and I think some minor features like recording and presentation mode aren’t working. They claim they will make packages for most systems, but I’m guessing they intend to do it themselves rather than approach organizations like Edubuntu directly. Which is great, but I suspect Edubuntu (and other Linux distros) and the Scratch Team can diagnose and fix problems faster than Scratch Team alone. Granted, much of the code is written in a language few know intimately, but there’s bound to be distro specific things that collaboration can identify.

By: Michel Leunen

Michel Leunen — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:31:16 +0000

Yeah, same for my kids. They use either Linux or windows unthinking. Without knowing what a proprietary software or open source is, they use whatever provided it does what they want. They especially like all the little games you find in Linux.