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Gcompris - Educational Games For Linux and Windows

GCompris is an educational software package which offers different activities to kids from 2 to 10 years old. GCompris is part of the GNU project. It is available for both Windows and Linux.

http://gcompris.net

Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6865

In the Linux version, an amazing 100+ activities are available! In the free Windows version however, the number is a bit smaller (about 25). It is possible to buy a version for Windows with all 100+ activities included for 20 EUR. Many languages are supported. The program is written by a French author, Bruno Coudoin.

I have only tried the Windows version. Unfortunately, I find it a bit slow in responding to button clicks etc even on a fairly fast computer. It has been translated into many languages, but the translations are sometimes not complete, resulting in a mixture of English and other languages in the instructions.

That said, there are quite a number of fun and educational activities. There is a simplified version of the Tower of Hanoi, a Mastermind game, some basic toddler mouse activities,games to learn how to tell the time, games to learn colors and a game where you pilot a submarine. In the paid version, there is also a chess game, games to practice money usage etc. You can also find a football game, Connect 4, musical exercises and much more!

The installation process for Windows has been much improved in version 8, and all necessary files are now included in the installation executable, which is however quite large: about 82 MB. Version 8 runs on Windows 2000 and above.

The following languages are supported:
Afrikaans (-), Albanian (-), Amharic (-), Arabic (-), Bahasa Indonesian (-), Basque (Euskara), Breton (-), Bulgarian (Български), Catalan (Català), Chinese (simplified) (-), Chinese (traditional) (-), Croatian (Hrvatski), Czech (Čeština), Danish (Dansk), Dutch (Nederlands), English (-), Estonian (Eesti), Finnish (Suomi), French (français), Georgian (-), German (Deutsch), Greek (Ελληνικά), Gujarati (-), Hebrew (Ivrit), Hindi (हिन्दी,हिंदी), Hungarian (Magyar ), Icelandic (Islenska), Irish (Gaelic) (Gaeilge), Italian (Italiano), Kinyarwanda (-), Lithuanian (Lietuvių), Macedonian (македонски), Malay (-), Malayalam (-), Marathi (-), Nepal (-), Norwegian (Norsk), Polish (Polski), Portuguese (Português), Punjabi (-), Romanian (Limba română), Russian (Русский язык), Serbian (Српски, Srpski), Slovak (Slovaščina), Slovenian (Slovenščina), Somali (-), Spanish (Español ), Swedish (Svenska), Thai (-), Turkish (Türkçe), Walloon (-), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt).

Written 01/15/2007

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