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On 05/06/2013 17:24, Hearns, John wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am thinking on buying a Raspberry Pi for
my nephew.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are there distributions for them which are
aimed at children – ie. if I pre-installed it with such a
distro would he be able<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to run some interesting applications out of
the box?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, I do know Google exists. But somehow
the human touch is better.<o:p></o:p></p>
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As Bernard said, Raspbian includes Scratch. Children as young as 7
have made videos on Youtube of their Scratch creations, and it's
been used all the way up to university level to teach the basics of
programming. You can set it to boot straight into the desktop, but
it's easy enough to get into from the command line. It doesn't come
with a lot of other stuff preinstalled that's useful to children,
but you could set it up with a few programs easily enough (Tuxpaint
is nice for younger kids). I'm not aware of a distro targeted at
children: the Raspberry Pi is more about inspiring children to use a
more grown-up computing environment, I think, than it is about
sealing them away from complexity. <br>
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