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This is a list of the Tasks Debian Junior is made of:

Arcade - Debian Jr. arcade games

This metapackage will install arcade games suitable, in the opinion of the contributors to the Debian Jr. project, for children of all ages. Mastering most of these games requires dexterity and cognitive skills usually developed only in the older children (around ages 5 to 8). But the youngest children may enjoy watching older players, or just poking randomly at the controls, depending on the game.

Art - Debian Jr. Art

Tools for children to produce artwork. The simplest of these is tuxpaint, which is designed for small children. It features sounds and easy to use controls. For older children, there are gimp and xpaint. While gimp is more complex, and is aimed at the graphic artist, it is not necessarily much harder to use than the older, less full-featured xpaint. Children starting out with just a small subset of the functions of these tools eventually pick up quite a number of new things as they explore, either with adults or other children with whom they share their computers, or on their own.

Games-card - Debian Jr. - karetní hry

Sbírka karetních her, v současné době pouze solitaire, které jsou spíše pro starší děti než pro mladší, přesto hry tohoto typu se mohou líbit dětem vstupujícím na základní školu.

Games-gl - Debian Jr. 3D hry (je potřeba akcelerovaný hardware)

Tyto hry používají knihovnu Open GL. Nebudou fungovat bez 3D grafické karty s hardwarovou kacelerací OpenGL.

Zatím co armagetron a gltron jsou odlišná provedení hry zobrazované klasickými 3D animacemi, Tux Racer je 3D hra vytvořené pro Linux. Narozdíl od stříleček, jsou tyto hry vhodné pro děti.

Games-net - Debian Jr. Network Games

While XPilot has a broad international community of players (mostly on high-bandwidth connections) it can be enjoyed on a home network as well. XBlast, on the other hand, achieves networking using the X protocol, so it is best suited to a local network.

Games-sim - Simulační hry Debian Jr.

Simulační hry jsou spíše složitějšího rázu, takže je doporučujeme starším dětem. I ty však mohou potřebovat pomoc starších.

Games-text - Debian Jr. textové hry.

Hlavní předností těchto her, je jejich jednoduchost. Můžete je hrát na jakkoliv slabém počítači. Některé z nich jsou tak jednoduché k ovládnutí, že jsou vhodné pro velmi malé děti.

Gnome - Debian Jr. pro GNOME

Tento balíček zahrnuje kolekci programů sestavených pro GNOME a určených dětem. Desktop GNOME není pro jejich provozování vyžadován. Programy jsou udržovány zcela odděleně tak, aby instalací systému Debian Jr. nebyly zavlečeny všechny možné závislosti GNOME.

Tento balíček není v žádném případě úplnou sadou programů z GNOME vhodných pro děti. Projekt Debian Jr. bude tento seznam v budoucích verzích rozšiřovat a pravděpodobně jej roztřídí do kategorií stejným způsobem, jakým je nyní organizován zbytek balíčků Debian Jr.

Internet - Debian Jr. - internetové nástroje

Aby děti mohly začít s Internetem, nepotřebují širokou škálu nástrojů. Většina uživatelů zjistí, že webový prohlížeč Iceweasel pokrývá jejich potřeby. Jak se u dětí rozvíjí sblížení a porozumnění Internetu, pravděpodobně jim budete chtít do počítače přidat další internetové klienty.

Kde - Debian Jr. for KDE

This package includes a collection of programs for children which are built for KDE. A KDE desktop is not required in order to run these. They are kept separate merely so that installing a Debian Jr. system won't drag in all kinds of KDE dependencies.

As such, this package is by no means a complete collection of programs suitable for children in KDE. The Debian Jr. project will be adding to this list in future releases, and likely refining the package into categories the way the rest of Debian Jr. packages are now organized.

Math - Debian Jr. educational math

This metapackage will install educational math programs suitable for children. Some of the packages use mathematics that is well beyond the abilities of young children (e.g. fractals and cryptography), but hopefully using these let them gain an appreciation of the beauty of math from an early age. Other packages allow children to explore and learn math concepts in an engaging, interactive way. Some packages are more general, providing math activities as only one part of the package, e.g. bsdgames includes "arithmetic" in addition to other non-math games, and x11-apps provides xcalc.

Programming - Debian Jr. programming

The emphasis for this sampling of programming packages for children is first on simple interpreted languages. Also important for using languages with children are good documentation, and some ability to produce visual programs without too much effort. It is by no means a complete list, and you are encouraged to explore other languages with children as well, even those children.

The Logo language is specifically designed for children, with a strong emphasis on the visual and concrete. Littlewizard is an icon-based graphical programming language also designed for children.

Puzzle - Debian Jr. Puzzles

Some puzzle-type games, from the more arcade-like and frozen-bubble to xjig (a jigsaw puzzle program), to lmemory (based on the classic "memory" card game). This sampling of packages was done in the hope that it will appeal to child and adult alike.

Sound - Debian Jr. sound

This metapackage will install a sampling of sound packages for a system that is used by children. While not all of these will be things that children will use directly, a child's system administrator can make use of them to ensure that the child gets the most out of their system.

System - Debian Jr. System tools

This package includes a few tools for helping children learn about and use their system.

Midnight Commander is more than just a file manager. It is shell with which children can explore and manage their own accounts. It can be a great help for the very young, as it saves them some typing (as compared with using a command-line shell directly). It is also packed with power and flexibility which can be tapped by older children and adults alike.

The 'hello' sample program can be used as an instructional aid, as an example of how to invoke programs from the shell, specify switches, use the man page, and so on.

Finally, lavaps not only provides a very pleasing way to visualize running processes and the resources they use, but can also make discovering and killing errant processes an easy thing to do for children who lack the ability yet to easily manage "ps" and "kill" from the command line.

Toys - Debian Jr. - hračky pro desktop

Tento metabalíček nainstaluje desktopové hračky vhodné pro děti.

Typing - Debian Jr. - psaní na stroji

Tento metabalíček nainstaluje výukové programy a hry pro různé úrovně dovednosti v psaní na stroji.

Writing - Debian Jr. writing

This metapackage will install tools for your budding young writer. A text editor, spell-checker, dictionary client and word processor are provided.