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Linux for Kids

How adorable is this?

Qimo

Qimo is a desktop operating system designed for kids. Based on the open source Ubuntu Linux desktop, Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for children aged 3 and up.

Qimo’s interface has been designed to be intuitive and easy to use, providing large icons for all installed games, so that even the youngest users have no trouble selecting the activity they want.

I would love to see this on the children’s stations in public libraries and schools!! In fact I’m going to add it to my open source talks for school librarians.

Found via DownloadSquad.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 7:38 am by Nicole C. Engard and is filed under Operating Systems, Schools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Linux for Kids”

  1. Cookie Wolfrom Says:
    March 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Here’s something you could load on those donated PCs and put in the Kid’s Room!

  2. Wednesday Wonders « smalltownlibrarian Says:
    April 1st, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    [...] Helen, for the link to this open source info on the liblime blog.  I’m keeping an eye on the KOHA folks and hope to get our library on the bandwagon for that [...]

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