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Giving kids a fresh start with Qimo Linux

One of the great challenges to Linux adoption is inertia. Many Windows users, for example, have spent decades learning and using the operating system: they don't want to be bothered with moving to and learning another.

Those are fogies like you and me. Kids, however, are a tabula rosa.

Taking advantage of that concept is Qimo, a desktop operating system geared toward kids that is based on the Ubuntu distribution of Linux. Developed by a husband-and-wife team Brian and Michelle Hall, Qimo was released in mid-February.

Getting kids into a new operating environment lets them, not Microsoft or any … Read more