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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 - Gry karciane Debian Jr.

Kolekcja gier karcianych, która do pewnego czasu była tylko pasjansem, przeznaczona raczej dla starszych dzieci, podczas gdy gry "pamięciowe" mogą bardziej odpowiadać dzieciom, które właśnie rozpoczęły naukę szkolną.

Games-gl - Debian Jr. 3D Games (hardware acceleration required)

These games all use OpenGL libraries. They will not work without decent 3D graphics cards providing hardware-accelerated OpenGL.

While armagetron and gltron are different interpretations of the game depicted in the classic 3D-animated movie "Tron", Tux Racer is an all-original made-for-Linux 3D racing game. Unlike the standard blood-and-guts fare in the 3D games universe, all of these games are suitable for children.

Games-net - Debian Jr. Gry Sieciowe

Podczas gdy XPilot ma rozległą międzynarodową społeczność graczy (głównie poprzez łącza o wysokim transferze) można się nim bawić także w sieci domowej. XBlast, z drugiej strony, korzysta z sieci poprzez protokół X, tak więc najlepiej nadaje się do sieci lokalnych.

Games-sim - Gry symulacyjne Debian Jr.

Gry sumulacyjne zazwyczaj są skomplikowane, więc polecamy je raczej starszym dziciom, chociaż nawet one mogą potrzebować podczas zabawy pomocy starszej osoby.

Games-text - Debian Jr. Text Games

The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)

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. Internet tools

For children, a wide variety of Internet tools are not necessary to get started. Most users will find the Iceweasel web browser covers their needs. As children's familiarity and sophistication of use of the Internet develops, you will probably want to add more Internet clients to the child's system.

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 - Narzędzia systemowe Debian Jr.

Ten pakiet zawiera kilka narzędzi mających pomóc dzieciom, uczyć się i używać własnego systemu.

Midnight Commander to coś więcej niż menedżer plików. To powłoka, z pomocą której dzieci mogą poznawać i zarządzać własnymi kontami. Może być wielkim udogodnieniem dla najmłodszych, ponieważ zaoszczędza im pisania na klawiaturze (w porównaniu z wierszem poleceń). Jego duże możliwości i elastyczność mogą być wykorzystane przez starsze dzieci tak, jak i dorosłych.

Przykładowy program "hello" może być wykorzystany jako pomoc naukowa, przykład tego, jak wywołać program z powłoki, określić opcje, używać stron man itd.

Ostatecznie, lavaps nie tylko jest bardzo sympatycznym sposobem obrazowania działających procesów i zużywanych przez nie zasobów, ale może też uczynić znajdowanie i zabijanie zabłąkanych procesów łatwą rzeczą dla dzieci nie potrafiących jeszcze używać "ps" i "kill" w wierszu poleceń.

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.