Summary
A Debian Pure Blend is a Debian internal project which assembles
a set of packages that might help users to solve certain tasks of their work. This page should be helpful
to track down the bugs of packages that are interesting for the debian-junior project to enable developers a quick
overview about possible problems.
Legend
Assessment | Limit |
excellent |
5 |
verygood |
10 |
good |
30 |
satisfactory |
50 |
pass |
70 |
bad |
100 |
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Bugs page
This is a list of metapackages. The links are leading to the respective bugs page.
- Art - Debian Jr. Art (2832*)
- Tools for children to produce artwork. The simplest of these is
tuxpaint, which is designed for small children. It features sounds
and easy to use controls. For older children, there are gimp and
xpaint. While gimp is more complex, and is aimed at the graphic
artist, it is not necessarily much harder to use than the older,
less full-featured xpaint. Children starting out with just a small
subset of the functions of these tools eventually pick up quite a
number of new things as they explore, either with adults or other
children with whom they share their computers, or on their own.
- Desktop - Debian Jr. Desktop Environment (21192*)
- This package is a Metapackage for Debian Jr. Desktop Environment.
- Doudou-base - DoudouLinux base (14850*)
- DoudouLinux is a Debian system cusomized to be easy to use for
children. It provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to
12 years old (or maybe 102?). For more information please have a look
at its home page http://www.doudoulinux.org/.
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This package provides the base package of DoudouLinux.
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Debian Jr. might (or might not) provide metapackages fit for the usage
inside DoudouLinux. This is just a test for metapackage layout and does
not yet create a real metapackage.
- Doudou-dev-artists - DoudouLinux Art development (2031*)
- DoudouLinux is a Debian system cusomized to be easy to use for
children. It provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to
12 years old (or maybe 102?). For more information please have a look
at its home page http://www.doudoulinux.org/.
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This package provides packages to develop artwork.
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Debian Jr. might (or might not) provide metapackages fit for the usage
inside DoudouLinux. This is just a test for metapackage layout and does
not yet create a real metapackage.
- Doudou-games - DoudouLinux Games (780*)
- DoudouLinux is a Debian system cusomized to be easy to use for
children. It provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to
12 years old (or maybe 102?). For more information please have a look
at its home page http://www.doudoulinux.org/.
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This package provides games.
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Debian Jr. might (or might not) provide metapackages fit for the usage
inside DoudouLinux. This is just a test for metapackage layout and does
not yet create a real metapackage.
- Education - Debian Jr. education applications (321*)
- This package includes a collection of educational programs
for children. These applications suit children from 2 to 12.
They will learn the computer mouse and keyboard as
well as various skills (numbers, letters, logic, etc.).
- Games-adventure - Debian Jr. Adventure Games (81*)
- Adventure games are interactive stories driven by exploration and puzzle
solving, and can be quite challenging. Recommended for older children, maybe
even requiring help from someone older.
- Games-arcade - Debian Jr. arcade games (561*)
- This metapackage will install arcade games suitable, in the
opinion of the contributors to the Debian Jr. project, for children
of all ages. Mastering most of these games requires dexterity
and cognitive skills usually developed only in the older children
(around ages 5 to 8). But the youngest children may enjoy watching
older players, or just poking randomly at the controls, depending
on the game.
- Games-card - Debian Jr. Card Games (108*)
- A collection of card games, for the time being just solitaire, which
are probably more suited to older children than young, although
the "memory" type games in pysol may appeal to children just entering
grade school.
- Games-gl - Debian Jr. 3D Games (hardware acceleration required) (258*)
- These games all use OpenGL libraries. They will not work without
decent 3D graphics cards providing hardware-accelerated OpenGL.
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While armagetron and gltron are different interpretations of the
game depicted in the classic 3D-animated movie "Tron", Tux Racer
is an all-original made-for-Linux 3D racing game. Unlike the
standard blood-and-guts fare in the 3D games universe, all of
these games are suitable for children.
- Games-net - Debian Jr. Network Games (204*)
- Network games bring people together from all over the world. Many times the
game and chat is a place where people learn languages, how to communicate, and
socializing skills.
- Games-puzzle - Debian Jr. Puzzle games (396*)
- Some puzzle-type games, from the more arcade-like and frozen-bubble to xjig (a
jigsaw puzzle program), to lmemory (based on the classic "memory" card game).
This sampling of packages was done in the hope that it will appeal to child
and adult alike.
- Games-sim - Debian Jr. Simulation Games (360*)
- Simulation games tend to be rather complex, so they are recommended
for older children, and even then some help from someone older may be
needed.
- Games-text - Debian Jr. Text Games (231*)
- The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run
on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that
very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)
- Internet - Debian Jr. Internet tools (2772*)
- For children, a wide variety of Internet tools are not necessary to get
started. Most users will find the Iceweasel web browser covers their needs.
As children's familiarity and sophistication of use of the Internet develops,
you will probably want to add more Internet clients to the child's system.
- Math - Debian Jr. educational math (900*)
- This metapackage will install educational math programs suitable for
children. Some of the packages use mathematics that is well beyond
the abilities of young children (e.g. fractals and cryptography), but
hopefully using these let them gain an appreciation of the beauty of
math from an early age. Other packages allow children to explore and
learn math concepts in an engaging, interactive way. Some packages
are more general, providing math activities as only one part of the
package, e.g. bsdgames includes "arithmetic" in addition to other
non-math games, and x11-apps provides xcalc.
- Programming - Debian Jr. programming (303*)
- The emphasis for this sampling of programming packages for children
is first on simple interpreted languages. Also important for using
languages with children are good documentation, and some ability to
produce visual programs without too much effort. It is by no means
a complete list, and you are encouraged to explore other languages
with children as well; even those that are not specifically aimed for
children.
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The Logo language is specifically designed for children, with a strong
emphasis on the visual and concrete. Littlewizard is an icon-based
graphical programming language also designed for children.
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Scratch is an easy, interactive, collaborative, visual programming language
with children from ages 8 and up as their target group.
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Arduino is a popular micro controller that is widely used by both people
learning electronics and programming as well as seasoned veterans doing
complex projects. It is necessary to connect a physical Arduino circuit board
in order to experiment with arduino.
- Sound - Debian Jr. sound (894*)
- This metapackage will install a sampling of sound packages for
a system that is used by children. While not all of these will
be things that children will use directly, a child's system
administrator can make use of them to ensure that the child
gets the most out of their system.
- System - Debian Jr. System tools (504*)
- This package includes a few tools for helping children learn about and
use their system.
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Midnight Commander is more than just a file manager. It is shell with
which children can explore and manage their own accounts. It can be a
great help for the very young, as it saves them some typing (as
compared with using a command-line shell directly). It is also packed
with power and flexibility which can be tapped by older children and
adults alike.
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The 'hello' sample program can be used as an instructional aid, as
an example of how to invoke programs from the shell, specify switches,
use the man page, and so on.
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Baobab, the GNOME disk usage analyzer, enables the user to take a
visual trip into the hard drive contents. It can be a mesmerizing first
step, dvelving into the inner parts of the computer system. It serves
both as an educational tool about file systems and file contents/size
as well as a tool for analyzing what files are big if disk space is
scarce.
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Bubblefishymon is a computer load monitor dockapp which shows network
traffic as fishes, CPU usage as bubbles, and a duck representing a
duck.
- Toys - Debian Jr. desktop toys (636*)
- This metapackage will install desktop toys suitable for children. The
collection contains some packages which might enjoy children and make
them love their computer.
- Typing - Debian Jr. typing (312*)
- This metapackage will install typing tutors and typing games for
various skill levels. This collection of packages was assembled
in the hope that children become comfortable with the keyboard
quickly while having fun learning it.
- Video - Debian Jr. Video (1125*)
- Tools to watch video files, DVD, CD, network streams etc.
- Writing - Debian Jr. writing (795*)
- This metapackage will install tools for your budding young
writer. It includes a text editor, spell-checker, dictionary client,
word processor, and educational writing software.
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