DoudouLinux

DoudouLinux
The logo for DoudouLinux showing a toucan in a blue circle with the words "the computer they prefer" below the circle
DoudouLinux Logo
Screenshot of the main screen with the program "Marble" being launched
Screenshot of the main screen with the program "Marble" being launched
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateDiscontinued[1]
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseMay 2010; 14 years ago (2010-05)[2]
Latest release2.1 / December 2013; 10 years ago (2013-12)[3]
Marketing targetChildren
Available in44 languages[3]
List of languages
Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (China and Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Telugu, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Influenced byDebian
Default
user interface		LXDE[4]
LicenseGPLv3[5]
Official websitedoudoulinux.org

DoudouLinux is a discontinued Linux distribution based on Debian[6] intended for children as young as 2 years old.[4] DoudouLinux is named after the French word doudou which refers to a wubby, which is a comfort object such as a small blanket or a teddy bear.[7]

DoudouLinux has not received an update since 2013, and their website has not received an update since a 2015 blog post.[8]

  1. ^ "DoudouLinux". DistroWatch. 7 February 2022. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Release notes". DoudouLinux.org. November 2013. Archived from the original on 30 January 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b "What's new in the latest release?". DoudouLinux.org. December 2013. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Hertzog, Raphaël. (2015). The Debian administrator's handbook : Debian Jessie from discovery to mastery. [Sorbiers]: Freexian Sarl. p. 445. ISBN 979-10-91414-04-3. OCLC 943280037.
  5. ^ "The DoudouLinux source code". DoudouLinux.org. March 2010. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference nyamador was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "The DoudouLinux origins". DoudouLinux.org. September 2010. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  8. ^ Sjölund, Jimmy (4 September 2017). "What's the current state of Linux distros for kids?". Opensource.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2022.