Tux4Kids

Welcome to Tux4Kids!
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, 2011-11-20: Tux4Kids participating in Google Code-In 2011!
Tux4Kids has been accepted as a participating organization in Google Code-In for this year's contest, which is open to pre-university students ages 13-17. The contest involves contributions to Free/Open Source software projects like Tux4Kids. The tasks range from straight programming to non-code work such as documentation, translations, artwork, and promotion. See the GCI website for contest details. NOTE: all code tasks for tuxmath and tuxtype should be based on the current master branches in the git repositories (see links on this page). Note that if you work on tuxmath, you must also install our t4k_common-0.1.1 library (the current tarball available for download on this site). Do not install the git build of t4k_common unless you are actually working on the library, as it is not compatible with tuxmath's master branch (there is a tuxmath branch called "t4k-1.0.0" which is compatible with the current git build of t4k_common).

NEWS, 2011-11-20: Tux4Kids participating in Google Code-In 2011!

Tux4Kids has been accepted as a participating organization in Google Code-In for this year's contest, which is open to pre-university students ages 13-17. The contest involves contributions to Free/Open Source software projects like Tux4Kids. The tasks range from straight programming to non-code work such as documentation, translations, artwork, and promotion. See the GCI website for contest details.
NOTE: all code tasks for tuxmath and tuxtype should be based on the current master branches in the git repositories (see links on this page). Note that if you work on tuxmath, you must also install our t4k_common-0.1.1 library (the current tarball available for download on this site). Do not install the git build of t4k_common unless you are actually working on the library, as it is not compatible with tuxmath's master branch (there is a tuxmath branch called "t4k-1.0.0" which is compatible with the current git build of t4k_common).

NEWS, 2011-05-09: Tux Math 2.0.3 for Win32, OS-X, and as Source!
TuxMath-2.0.3 has been released in source code form, as a Win32 binary installer, and as a program in MacPorts (www.macports.org). This fixes a bug in the Windows release (turn-based multiplayer not starting) and addresses some Mac-specific issues, but is otherwise very similar to version 2.0.2. The OS-X version is a big upgrade over 1.7.2, but does contain two known bugs involving features that are new to the Mac version. First, there is a cosmetic display problem with some of the images if the game is played in a 640x480 window. The default fullscreen mode displays correctly. Second, the LAN game appears to only work correctly if the client and server programs are running on the same machine. If you can help debug or fix these problems, your help is greatly welcomed! However, the standard single-player game and lessons work correctly, as does the newly enhanced Factoroids game. As of yet, there is no standalone Mac binary ready for download. I have been able to build a Snow Leopard TuxMath-2.0.3 dmg using MacPorts, but it is an extremely large (> 100 MB) file as it contains a very large number of dependency librarys. I'm currently investigating whether the size of the image can be reduced.

NEWS, 2011-05-09: Tux Math 2.0.3 for Win32, OS-X, and as Source!

TuxMath-2.0.3 has been released in source code form, as a Win32 binary installer, and as a program in MacPorts (www.macports.org). This fixes a bug in the Windows release (turn-based multiplayer not starting) and addresses some Mac-specific issues, but is otherwise very similar to version 2.0.2. The OS-X version is a big upgrade over 1.7.2, but does contain two known bugs involving features that are new to the Mac version. First, there is a cosmetic display problem with some of the images if the game is played in a 640x480 window. The default fullscreen mode displays correctly. Second, the LAN game appears to only work correctly if the client and server programs are running on the same machine. If you can help debug or fix these problems, your help is greatly welcomed! However, the standard single-player game and lessons work correctly, as does the newly enhanced Factoroids game.

As of yet, there is no standalone Mac binary ready for download. I have been able to build a Snow Leopard TuxMath-2.0.3 dmg using MacPorts, but it is an extremely large (> 100 MB) file as it contains a very large number of dependency librarys. I'm currently investigating whether the size of the image can be reduced.

NEWS, 2011-01-16: Tux4Kids is on Facebook
To help promote our educational software, we have created a Tux4Kids Facebook page. The box on the left links to our page and allows you to "like" it. Please help spread the word to any of your Facebook-using friends! David Bruce

NEWS, 2011-01-16: Tux4Kids participates in Google Code-In
This year's Google Code-In has just finished, and Tux4Kids received a lot of attention from the 13-18 year old students competing in the contest. The students completed nearly 100 tasks to help enhance Tux Paint, Tux Math, and Tux Typing. These tasks included both coding and non-code contributions, such as translations, artwork, and documentation. Many of the tasks added features that will be very visible to users, as opposed to the "infrastructure" work that has occupied much of our efforts recently. In particular, Tux Math's "Factoroids" activity has been extensively reworked, and is greatly improved with respect to both learning and gameplay (i.e. fun!). We hope to have new releases available in the next few weeks once the new code is fully tested and stabilized. David Bruce

NEWS, 2011-01-16: Tux4Kids participates in Google Code-In

This year's Google Code-In has just finished, and Tux4Kids received a lot of attention from the 13-18 year old students competing in the contest. The students completed nearly 100 tasks to help enhance Tux Paint, Tux Math, and Tux Typing. These tasks included both coding and non-code contributions, such as translations, artwork, and documentation. Many of the tasks added features that will be very visible to users, as opposed to the "infrastructure" work that has occupied much of our efforts recently. In particular, Tux Math's "Factoroids" activity has been extensively reworked, and is greatly improved with respect to both learning and gameplay (i.e. fun!). We hope to have new releases available in the next few weeks once the new code is fully tested and stabilized.

David Bruce

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