The best Linux games for kids

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The best collection of Linux educational software for all ages that I know of is the openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) Live DVD. You can get it at http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live#Download. There are some screen shots here.

This is a Live DVD - you simply place the DVD in the computer's DVD drive and reboot the machine from it. When the machine comes up, you will be running Linux. Normally, the software won't write to your computer's hard drive unless you specifically ask it to. So a couple of reminders:

• You'll want to plug in a USB disk drive / memory stick for documents you want to save or share with other users or machines.
• When you shut the computer down and remove the DVD, it will come back up just as it was before.

There's a wide variety of "edutainment" software on this DVD for kids 12 years old and up. For religious education there's BibleTime, a Bible study tool. For chemistry, there's Avogadro, Chemtool, gElemental, and XDrawChem. For astronomy, there's the Stellarium planetarium simulator, and for math there's Dr. Geo, Euler, K3DSurf, KSEG, wxMaxima and Xaos.

For the younger children, six years old and up, there are four packages designed to teach programming: EToys from the One Laptop Per Child project, Scratch from MIT, Little Wizard and XLogo. Moving on to games, one of the best collections of games for younger children, two years old and up, is GCompris. There is also the Sugar desktop from the One Laptop Per Child project.

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