GCompris releases version 1.0 to celebrate 20 years

The GCompris project,which provides a "high quality educational software suite, includinga large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10", has announced its 1.0release, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the project. Itincludes more than 100 activities, a new Dataset selection in the ActivitySettings menu for more than 50 activities, and four new activities,including an Analog Electricity activity to simulate and learn about circuits.KDE.news coveredthe release: "We have built the activities to follow theprinciples of 'nothing succeeds like success' and that children, whenlearning, should be challenged, but not made to feel threatened. Thus,GCompris congratulates, but does not reprimand; all the characters thechild interacts with are friendly and supportive; activities are brightlycolored, contain encouraging voices and play upbeat, but soothing music. The hardware requirements for running GCompris are extremely low and itwill run fine on older computers or low-powered machines, like theRaspberry Pi. This saves you and your school from having to invest in newand expensive equipment and it is also eco-friendly, as it reduces theamount of technological waste that is produced when you have to renewcomputers to adapt to more and more power-hungry software. GCompris workson Windows, Android and GNU/Linux computers, and on desktop machines,laptops, tablets and phones."