Freeing Computers in Schools (Linux Journal)

[Posted September 18, 2003 by ris]

Here's a Linux Journal article with examples of how free software is opening up a whole new world, with education as one of its beneficiaries. "[A] younger child dances to the music that a program called Bump and Jump plays, a piece of software written by a team of Swedish students. The best part is nobody paid for the CD the children are using; it's not pirated either. It can be run from any computer, simply by booting from the CD-ROM drive. The CD comes in a distribution called FreEDUC."

I hope the Jump-n-Bump PC has its screen off

Posted Sep 20, 2003 14:19 UTC (Sat) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm not sure that cute little rabbits exploding in huge showers of gore and chunks is exactly what an 8yo needs to see... but on the whole OFSET's FreeDUC is great, I'm hoping to sell a few at a swapmeet tomorrow.

Should also mention that OSEF have a similar Tux4Kids ISO

Posted Sep 20, 2003 14:26 UTC (Sat) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

Available here.