Just something for that young at heart to play with.....

Tux Paint is an easy-to-use drawing program, designed for children ages 3 and up. It offers a simple interface, with large, colorful buttons and sound effects. Even though it is designed for kids, the program is not limited to simple paint operations, but includes a good array of features like paint effects (rainbow, fading, sparkles etc.), auto-fill, text insertion, shapes, image gallery, image stamps and more. The program can either run in normal windowed mode, or full screen. Tux Paint is easy enough to be used by young children, yet provides enough features to keep them using it as they grow older.

Tux Paint is completely free software, released as “Open Source” software, under the provisions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). This means you may download it and install it on as many machines as you wish, copy it for friends and family, and give it to your local schools. In fact, we encourage this!

Tux Paint runs on most systems, but check the Requirements if you're unsure whether your system can support it.

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/

Grand Dad...

I've had this for ages; it is so cute ..oops I mean, the kids love it!


How Can It Be Free?

Tux Paint is developed by volunteers around the world. We work on it as a labor of love, with the hopes that people will find it useful, and in turn share it with their own friends and family. (Specifically, Tux Paint is Free/Libre software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.)

June 3: Over 3 dozen new drawings were added to the Artist Gallery today. Enjoy!

Lead Developer: Bill Kendrick, Lead Developer (California, USA)

Bill has developed numerous Open Source games for Linux, which, like Tux Paint, have found themselves running on a variety of other operating systems thanks to others.

Open Source Software for:
Linux : MacOSX : Windows : BeOS : MacOS9 : MorphOS : RISCOS
QNX : Amiga : AtariST : Dreamcast : Sony PSP : Nokia 770 : GP2X
GP32 : Zaurus : Familiar : Symbian : VR3 : AtariXL : Web

See: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com.

Games:
Arcade:
- Mad Bomber
- X-Bomber
- 3D Pong
- Entombed!
- ICBM3D
- Teeter Torture
- Brick Out
- Bugsquish
- Circus Linux!

Educational:
- TuxMath

Platform:
- BoboBot
- Super Tux

Puzzle:
- Sludge
- PDA Maze
- TTT (Tic-Tac-Toe)
- Cat5Walk
- Gem Drop X
- Gem Drop

Shooter:
- Aliens
- Vectoroids
- Defendguin
- Agendaroids

Toys:
- Virtual Kendrick
Educational:
- Tux Print
- Tux Writer
- Tux Paint

Utils:
Desktop:
- Mirror
- File Selector
- Thumbpad

Graphics:
- Colorizer

Networking:
- MuxChat

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Tux Typing
"Tux Typing" is an educational typing tutor for children. It features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels.

Screenshots
Tux Typing @ SourceForge

Hint
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Tux Typing 2 - v.1.5.15 - first release since 2004!

"Tux Typing development is active again with the first SF.net release in over three years.
The "official" home page (which is very rudimentary so far) is at: http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org.
(The source repository is now housed at the Alioth/Debian Subversion site.)

TuxType 1.5.15 has some user-visible upgrades, but mainly represents internal reworking to properly support UTF-8/Unicode. The first Indic language theme, Malayalam, is included. It should now be possible to add themes to support all of the world's major languages.

The Downloads page has the source code for TuxType 1.5.15 in a *tar.gz archive file, as well as an executable installer file for Windows. For users of Debian and its derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu), this version is now in Debian's "Sid/Unstable" branch. I hope to have rpm and deb packages available here in the near future.

Note - there is no current build of TuxTyping for MacOSX! If you have a Mac and would like to get involved, please contact tuxmath-devel@sourceforge.net "

Get it @ SourceForge»

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A blast - tuneup your keyboarding skills!

October 29 — Watch out for a new version of Tux Paint in November!



October 2 — Having trouble printing in Tux Paint, or other minor problems? Please see the 'Known Issues'' page.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 is now available!
November 21-22, 2007
Windows Vista, XP and 2000, PowerPC-based Macs, source-code.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 is available immediately for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and 2000(a stand-alone ZIP-file version is available, as well) and PowerPC-based Apple Mac OS X systems, as is its source-code.
(Versions for Fedora Linux are expected later this week, and versions for Intel Macs and older versions of Windows follow in the coming weeks.)

Read the press release!»

For a complete list of changes, see the Tux Paint change log, Tux Paint Config. change log and Tux Paint Stamps change log.

Tux Paint is available for download free of charge from the project's website.
For further information, visit: http://www.tuxpaint.org and http://www.newbreedsoftware.com.

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Tux Typing 1.5.16
@ winPenPack.com

Tux Paint v 0.9.18-1
(2008.01.22 update)

"A bug-fix release of Tux Paint version 0.9.18 for Windows is now available."

Changelog:
Bugfix release of 0.9.18 that includes some other changes from CVS (that will become 0.9.19).

• Localization Updates:
  Danish/Finnish/French/Gujarati/Russian
  
  
• System-Related Improvements:
  Removed unfinished, unused record and playback code.
  
  
• Documentation Improvements:
  Brought documentation on Tux Paint canvas size up-to-date, for importing photos/etc.
  
  
• Bug Fixes:
  • Corrected bug where Shift and Kaleidoscope magic tools would crash
    when sound was disabled.
    
  • Corrected issues that prevented building Tux Paint without sound
    support (extraneous SDL_mixer library calls).
    
  • Preventing crash when starter images could not be loaded
    (when trying to flip or mirror them).
    
  • Fixed bug on Windows that caused image's metadata file to become corrupt
    after 40 flips or mirrors, which in turn caused a crash on startup.

Available: Installer & Zip(non-install)
The installer also comes with the Tux Paint Config. tool, for changing Tux Paint's settings.
Non-install: download the Stamps file also.

Tux Paint Downloads»

Tux of Math Command 1.6.1- Windows
Feb 12, 2008

Changelog:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.p...lease_id=576061


Downloads»

Home page of Tux of Math Command (TuxMath) and & Tux Typing

Announcing Tux Paint 0.9.19
From the Press Release:
"As usual, the Tux Paint team keeps both the youngest end-users and their security-minded parents, teachers and computer lab administrators in mind. Correcting an issue in the last release, Mac users no longer need to run Tux Paint in Administrator mode the first time for it to run properly. A new configuration option allows users to decide whether or not the computer's screensaver should be disabled while Tux Paint is running. This latest release of Tux Paint also corrects a number of issues introduced in the previous version, including bugs that could cause crashes and freezes on both Windows and Mac OS X.

Tux Paint, renowned for its multi-lingual capabilities, continues to be translated into new languages, while other translations are corrected or expanded upon. New in this version: Azerbaijani, Khmer, Macedonian, Occitan and Zapoteco. Australian and Canadian variants of English have also been introduced."

Tux Paint (Large) Changelog»

Tux Paint Config Changelog»

Tux Paint Stamps Changelog»

Tux Paint - All Downloads page»
-or-go straight to Tux Paint SourceForge Downloads»

Click to view attachmentTux Paint 0.9.20
as well as: Tuxpaint-config 0.0.11, Tuxpaint-fonts, Tuxpaint-stamps
July 1, 2008

As usual a large Changelog @ SourceForge.

All systems: TuxPaint Downloads»

SourceForge Project page

Click to view attachment Tux Paint 0.9.20b
A minor update has been released for Windows XP/2000/Vista
August 20, 2008

Changes:
- Fixes bug in Paint tool where clicking without dragging doesn't draw anything.
- Windows key no longer switches away from Tux Paint while in fullscreen mode.

All systems: TuxPaint Downloads»

Non-install: look for this below Windows downloads:
(A stand-alone ZIP-file version is available, as well.)

SourceForge Project page

TuxMath 1.6.3 - Windows (Linux/Mac OS X & Sources)
http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1184

Screenshots: http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath.php
Downloads: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31080

Tux Math (Tux of Math Command) 1.7.0
Notes (Windows release):
This release includes major enhancements over previous versions, including high-resolution fullscreen support and a completely new game activity, "Factoroids". Factoroids provides a fun review of factoring while clearing rocks from outer space.

Changes: Version 1.7.0
First post-Google Summer of Code release with numerous enhancements.
The changelog was not kept updated very well over the summer, although most of the changes had descriptive commit messages in subversion.

To summarize the most important changes and their contributors:

• Fullscreen support at native resolution (Brendan Luchen).
• Overhaul of mathcards question-generation code with support for multiple-operand questions (Brendan Luchen).
• Turn-based multiplayer mode (Brendan Luchen).
• Redo of Credits screen to allow i18n (Brendan Luchen).
• Very humorous menu-screen Easter egg (Brendan Luchen).
• Factoroids factor game activity (Jesus Mager, based on Bill Kendricks' "Vectoroids").
• New Irish (Seanán Ó Coistín) and Turkish (Doruk Fisek) translations.
• Several new menu icons. David Bruce <davidstuartbruce@gmail.com>

Mac version & Sources are also available:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=649071