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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. Card Games

A collection of card games, for the time being just solitaire, which are probably more suited to older children than young, although the "memory" type games in pysol may appeal to children just entering grade school.

Games-gl - Debian Jr. 用 3D ゲーム集 (要ハードウェアアクセラレーション)

すべてのゲームは OpenGL ライブラリを使用します。OpenGL 対応のハードウェア アクセラレーション機能を持った最近の 3D ビデオカードがないと動きません。

armagetron と gltron は、昔の 3D アニメ映画 "Tron" を元にした異なる味付けの ゲームですが、Tux Racer は Linux 用に作られた完全オリジナルの 3D レーシング ゲームです。3D ゲーム界でおなじみの血塗れでおぞましい内容とは違い、すべての ゲームは子どもが遊ぶのに向いています。

Games-net - Debian ジュニア ネットワークゲーム

XPilot には、大きくて国際的なプレイヤー(大半は速い回線でインターネッ トに接続しています)のコミュニティがありますが、ゲーム自体をプレイする ためには速い回線は必要ありません。一方、XBlast は X プロトコルを使用 してネットワークを利用しますので、LAN でプレイするのが適しています。

Games-sim - Debian Jr. Simulation Games

Simulation games tend to be rather complex, so they are recommended for older children, and even then some help from someone older may be needed.

Games-text - Debian こどもむけテキストゲーム

これらのゲームの一番の長所はその単純さにあります。ですからどんなマシ ンでも動作するでしょう。そして、いくつかのゲーム(例えば snake とか) は操作がシンプル過ぎて、とってもちっさなこどもしか楽しめないでしょう。

Gnome - Debian Jr. for GNOME

This package includes a collection of programs for children which are built for GNOME. A GNOME 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 GNOME dependencies.

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

Internet - Debian Jr. (子供向け) インターネットツール

子供たちにとって、幅広い種類のインターネットツールは、使い始めるにあたって は必要ありません。ほとんどのユーザは Iceweasel ウェブブラウザで事足りるで しょう。子供たちがインターネットの利用に慣れ、垢抜けてくるにつれて、より多 くのインターネットクライアントプログラムを子供のシステムに追加したいと恐ら く思うようになるでしょう。

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. パズル

よりアーケードっぽい frozen-bubble から xjig (ジグソーパズルプログラム) や lmemory (昔からあるカードゲームの memory を模したもの) まで、 いくつかのパズルゲームです。 このパッケージ集が子供も大人も同じように興味を引くと期待しています。

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. desktop toys

This metapackage will install desktop toys suitable for children. The collection contains some packages which might enjoy children and make them love their computer.

Typing - Debian Jr. typing

This metapackage will install typing tutors and typing games for various skill levels. This collection of packages was assembled in the hope that children become comfortable with the keyboard quickly while having fun learning it.

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.