[New Torrent] pclinuxos-education-2011.08

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PCLinuxOS Edu

Size: 686MB
Md5Sum: 01748f6334b4fffa796507dc594b1d7f
Produced by: Melodie, Crow and the testers
User Level:  Children

Info: PCLinuxOS Education is constructed around the window manager Openbox and a
few additional programs, to form what is an extremely fast-performing and
energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of
developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support,
standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing.
Openbox uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It runs especially
well on computers with low hardware specifications, such as netbooks, mobile
devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers.

Features:
Kernel 2.6.38.8-bfs kernel for maximum desktop performance.
Full Openbox Desktop.
Nvidia driver support. ATI fglrx can be added later.
Multimedia playback support for many popular formats.
Wireless support for many network devices.
Printer support for many local and networked printer devices.
Addlocale allows you to convert PCLinuxOS into over 60 languages.
LibreOfficeManager can install Libre Office supporting over 100 languages.
OOo4Kids Manager can install OpenOffice For Kids in 17 languages.

Highlighted Applications:
GCompris - a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous
activities for children aged 2 to 10
Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.
Below you can find a list of categories with some of the activities available in
that category.

-  computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
-  algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
-  science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation
...
-  geography: place the country on the map
-  games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
-  reading: reading practice
-  other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing,
cartoon making, ...

Currently GCompris offers in excess of 100 activities and more are being
developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your
own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere.

Childsplay - a collection of educational activities for young children and runs
on Windows, OSX, and Linux. Childsplay can be used at home, kindergartens and
pre-schools. A fun and safe way to let young children use the computer and at
the same time teach them a little math, letters of the alphabeth, spelling,
eye-hand coordination etc.
Childsplay is part of the schoolsplay.org project.

Omnitux - The project aims to provide various educational activities around
multimedia elements (images, sounds, texts)
Types of activities

    Associations,
    items to place on a map or a schema,
    counting activities,
    puzzles,
    card faces to remember,
    ...
Multiple languages support :

    German
    English
    French
    Italian
    Polish
    Portuguese
    Spanish

Available for Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Gamine - the game for the youngest. Starting age of 18 months when your child
starts climbing on your knees and messing around your desktop  with the mouse,
hop ! Start Gamine,  and the child will have colorful shapes and music reacting
to the moves of the mouse, leaving your desktop alone, and discovering that the
move of the mouse has an action !

gTans - A tangram game offering plenty of possibilities, and very configurable
Tuxtype - to learn and improve typing while feeding Tux
Tux Paint - to draw and paint. A set of thumbs are installed, more can be
installed later
TuxMathScrabble - a game to learn maths while playing scrabble with Tux

Scratch - An astounding programming language for everyone. While building
stories and scenes, you will learn and teach development to young children, and
many projects which can be downloaded for use can be found at the main site.
Scratch: Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them
online.

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