COMP 3000 2011 Report: DoudouLinux

Background

Doudou” is a french word for the teddy bear or blanket that children love to carry around and hug. In that context,DoudouLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution designed for young children from age two to seven.<ref name = "DoudouLinux: You know, for kids">Linux info from the source (Last accessed October 17, 2011).</ref>

It is a system that aims at making computer use as easy and pleasant as possible for children. Founded by the French Jean-Michel Philippe,its first release “Gondwana” was released in June 2011 and is based on a minimal Debian “Lenny” linux system.

DoudouLinux is officially available in 25 languages<ref name = "DistroWatch">DistroWatch (Last accessed October 17, 2011).</ref> and can be downloaded it on the DoudouLinux [www.doudoulinux.org/ homepage] as an ISO image file of approximately 693 MB in size.

Installation/Startup

The minimum requirements to run DoudouLiux are<ref name = "Requierements">Downloads (Last accessed October 18, 2011).</ref>:

• 256 MB memory
• 800 MHz processor
• 800×600 dots display

I used VMWare Workstation and allocated 8GB for the virtual machine and 512MB of RAM.

The installation is fairly easy and fast(around 30 seconds)! No problems were encountered since there is minimal system configuration or management options and the system does not request the setting up of a username and password.

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Figure 1 The initial setup screen for VMWare

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