Hello Pavel, Thanks Pavel, to take care about DoudouLinux future :). To be honest I still wonder why so few people take care of our project future and, in a general manner, of (Linux) kids distributions. I have probably already written that somewhere years ago: children are our future because they will build our future, so if you don't drive them to the paths you believe to be the better ones, don't be surprise if one day your future is not turning into the one you were dreaming of… There is no hidden message concerning the present we are now living but please feel free to wonder how education during the past decades drove us to the situation we are now, I guess this is a good exercise ;). So nowadays I don't believe technology is driving our children to the best, for them and for us too, but I feel sometimes a bit alone in my thoughts I must say (unlike some people may think, this is not only a matter of teaching free software!). Unfortunately, for personal reasons I won't be able to really dedicate free time again to DDL until maybe 4 or 5 years, yes quite a bunch I know! So consider that I'm almost not available anymore to build a technology alternative for children, for a while. Of course this should not prevent contributors to take over from me!
Concerning PrimTux, they had a stand at the Paris Open Source Summit last week, and visitors told me this is a distribution essentially targeted at schools, French schools indeed. I think the team behind PrimTux was previously backing another kids distribution that was also designed for French schools, someone pointed me that project months ago. You can try to ask them if they would join forces, but I'm not sure they're really interested by the same goals as ours (families, everywhere in the world for us). That said, we could probably at least share some code with them, to be able to boot Jessie with UEFI or to replace our welcome menu for example. On the other side Gérald told me during the summer that he would like to revive DDL. His idea is to produce a version able to run on Raspberry Pi 3. I recall that years ago we already had a version running on ARM and RPi (first versions), but this was slow because of low hardware performance at this time. The main difficulty is not to have it run on RPi, it is to find people to help have it run on Jessie! I had few contacts with developers at Paris Open Source Summit, especially young guys from a IT engineers school (EFREI, near Paris). I have had contacts with few universities in the past but never succeeded in setting up a collaboration, this is harder than expected. Usually people want to develop games or complex applications, not to debug scripts that rebuild translated messages for the OS or set up ALSA output at live boot… So I can't tell if we will find new developers soon. We should probably first find who in our community wants to get more involved than he/she was. Maybe you would like to join Gérald effort, Pavel? Cheers, JM. ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Pavel Borecki" <[email protected]> > À: [email protected] > Envoyé: Lundi 7 Novembre 2016 18:08:21 > Objet: Similar project - PrimeTux > > Hello, > > by accident I met PrimeTux project - GNU/Linux distribution aiming on > the same user base (kids) and adhering the same principles as > DoudouLinux. > > Technically it is based on Debian Jessie (as Doudou 3.x is intended > to > be) and set of applications also seems to be very similar. > > So, what about joining resources somehow and make this unique mission > of system tailored for kids sustainable? > (there were so many of them not living yet - do you remember Qimo, > Kiddix, etc?) > > What is your opinion, J.M. and you, rest of community? > > > Have a nice day :) > > Pavel > > > P.S.: > > I'm not sure about my membership on mailing lists (long ago), so > would > you relay this please? > > _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-lang mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-lang
