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.

Figure 1 During the installation of DoudouLinux

The installation is fairly easy and fast(around 30 seconds)[Figure 1] 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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