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Tux4Kids develops high-quality software for kids, with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistable package. Our software is free: you can download it for use at home or onto hundreds of computers in a school. We support all major platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix. Our programs are used by people around the globe, and they have been translated into dozens of different languages. As open-source software, these programs can be freely extended or customized, and they are supported by active communities of volunteer developers.
Whether you're a parent, a teacher, or a kid, give Tux4Kids software a try!

NEWS, 2010-05-02: New releases of Tux Math and Tux Typing!
Tux Math 1.8.0 and Tux Typing 1.8.1 have been released in source-code form, and are available for download in the usual locations on this site. As of yet, there are no binaries, which hopefully will be addressed soon. Tux Math 1.8.0 includes the new LAN mode for direct multiplayer competition over a local network. Also, it now uses Scalable Vector Graphics for better appearance independent of screen resolution. Tux Typing 1.8.1 has a number of fixes since 1.8.0, but is overall very similar from a user's perspective. David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-05-02: New releases of Tux Math and Tux Typing!

Tux Math 1.8.0 and Tux Typing 1.8.1 have been released in source-code form, and are available for download in the usual locations on this site. As of yet, there are no binaries, which hopefully will be addressed soon. Tux Math 1.8.0 includes the new LAN mode for direct multiplayer competition over a local network. Also, it now uses Scalable Vector Graphics for better appearance independent of screen resolution. Tux Typing 1.8.1 has a number of fixes since 1.8.0, but is overall very similar from a user's perspective.

David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-05-02: Tux4Kids GSoC 2010 students announced!
Google recently announced the students accepted for this year's Summer of Code. There were six successful applicants with proposals to work on Tux4Kids: Wenyuan Guo: improved use of SVG in TuxMath Brendan Luchen: development of libt4k-common Jesus Magar: "Tux History", an "Age of Empires"-style game with educational content. Vikas Singh: development of tux4kids-admin. Ankit Choudhary: accessibility improvements for Tux Paint Joao Moriera: Tux Paint collaborative web application. Congratulations to this year's GSoC students, and here's to a fun summer of programming! For more specific information, go to theGSoC website. David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-05-02: Tux4Kids GSoC 2010 students announced!

Google recently announced the students accepted for this year's Summer of Code. There were six successful applicants with proposals to work on Tux4Kids:

Wenyuan Guo: improved use of SVG in TuxMath
Brendan Luchen: development of libt4k-common
Jesus Magar: "Tux History", an "Age of Empires"-style game with educational content.
Vikas Singh: development of tux4kids-admin.
Ankit Choudhary: accessibility improvements for Tux Paint
Joao Moriera: Tux Paint collaborative web application.

Congratulations to this year's GSoC students, and here's to a fun summer of programming!

For more specific information, go to theGSoC website.

David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-03-18: Tux4Kids Accepted for GSoC 2010!
Tux4Kids has been accepted as a participating organization for Google's 2010 Summer of Code. As noted previously, interested university students should follow the developer mailing lists and familiarize themselves with the source code for the project(s) of their interest. In 2009, Tux4Kids was allocated five student slots by Google. So far, there is no word on whether that number will increase or decrease for 2010. Note that this year we will be emphasizing projects that are focused, well thought-out, and completable within the GSoC 2010 time frame. Successful projects should be release-ready by the end of the summer, including testing, documentation, and merging into the program's mainline ("master") branch. For more specific information, go to theGSoC website. David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-03-18: Tux4Kids Accepted for GSoC 2010!

Tux4Kids has been accepted as a participating organization for Google's 2010 Summer of Code. As noted previously, interested university students should follow the developer mailing lists and familiarize themselves with the source code for the project(s) of their interest. In 2009, Tux4Kids was allocated five student slots by Google. So far, there is no word on whether that number will increase or decrease for 2010.

Note that this year we will be emphasizing projects that are focused, well thought-out, and completable within the GSoC 2010 time frame. Successful projects should be release-ready by the end of the summer, including testing, documentation, and merging into the program's mainline ("master") branch.

For more specific information, go to theGSoC website.

David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-03-11: Google Summer of Code 2010
Tux4Kids is planning to participate in Google's Summer of Code again for 2010. We will be submitting our application to be a participating project within the next 24 hours, and will hear next week if we have again been accepted. Interested students should follow the tuxmath, tuxtype, and tuxpaint developers' lists. Also, take a look at the source code for our programs. Instructions for cloning the git repositories for tuxmath and tuxtype are available elsewhere on this page, whereas information for Tux Paint is available at http://www.tuxpaint.org. Further general announcements will be available here. The specifics of the GSoC application process, and details concerning our participation, will be located at the GSoC website. David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-03-11: Google Summer of Code 2010

Tux4Kids is planning to participate in Google's Summer of Code again for 2010. We will be submitting our application to be a participating project within the next 24 hours, and will hear next week if we have again been accepted. Interested students should follow the tuxmath, tuxtype, and tuxpaint developers' lists. Also, take a look at the source code for our programs. Instructions for cloning the git repositories for tuxmath and tuxtype are available elsewhere on this page, whereas information for Tux Paint is available at http://www.tuxpaint.org.

Further general announcements will be available here. The specifics of the GSoC application process, and details concerning our participation, will be located at the GSoC website. David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-02-07: Project update
From the surrogate webmaster: Tux4Kids has switched from Subversion to Git for its file repositories, including the files storing the content for this website. There is still a lot of great new code from last summer that needs some finishing touches. As the lack of recent releases seems to be an obstacle to further progress, I intend to post "as is" builds for TuxType and TuxMath. For TuxType, 1.8.1 should be very feature-similar to 1.8.0, with several rough edges fixed. For TuxMath, 1.8.0 will include a complete overhaul of the menu code with SVG-based graphics, as well as the first public view of LAN-based multiplayer support. There will certainly be some rough spots, but I think we need to "release early and often" to keep the project moving. David Bruce

NEWS, 2010-02-07: Project update

From the surrogate webmaster:
Tux4Kids has switched from Subversion to Git for its file repositories, including the files storing the content for this website. There is still a lot of great new code from last summer that needs some finishing touches. As the lack of recent releases seems to be an obstacle to further progress, I intend to post "as is" builds for TuxType and TuxMath. For TuxType, 1.8.1 should be very feature-similar to 1.8.0, with several rough edges fixed. For TuxMath, 1.8.0 will include a complete overhaul of the menu code with SVG-based graphics, as well as the first public view of LAN-based multiplayer support. There will certainly be some rough spots, but I think we need to "release early and often" to keep the project moving.

David Bruce

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