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Today’s Wine
Today, I’d like to introduce you to Toro Bravo, a 2017 Tempranillo Merlot from Spain. Toro Bravo is an inexpensive wine that has got a lot of people talking. This wine is a deep ruby red with strong flavours of black cherry, dark coffee, and maybe a little bitter chocolate (like those 85% cocoa Lindt chocolate bars). It’s full of attitude but still nicely balanced and it’s got a nice long finish. Super cheap but really good. Enjoy!
News. Rumors. Conspiracy Theories
The Internet was built on the backs of open source programmers. Is that sustainable?
Sony makes its “Into The Spider-Verse” software free and open source.
https://www.cbr.com/into-the-spider-verse-software-goes-open-source/
Doing It For The Right Reasons
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2019/03/19/doing-it-right-reasons-millennials-open-source-and-philosophy
Today’s Featured Topic
Today’s topic is Linux for kids. Starting with GCompris, a collection of teaching tools for kids.
Then, if you want to get your kids into programming, you can start with KTurtle, which is based on Logo.
When it’s time to get fancier, kids can start looking at Scratch, a modular construction and visually oriented language. Here’s a screenshot of my then 9 year old son’s “Cat Simulator”.
Finally, I’d like to talk about OLPC, the One Laptop Per Child project. Specifically, I want to touch on the operating environment that was developed for the OLPC laptop, an environment that you can still download and run. It’s called Sugar.
Here are the links that cover those things.
GCompris : https://www.gcompris.net
KTurtle : https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kturtle
Logo Programming Language (Wikipedia) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
Scratch Programming Language : https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/lifelong-kindergarten/projects/
OLPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child
Sugar : https://sugarlabs.org/
Distribution Focus
Wouldn’t it be totally awesome if you could just use a regular PC to run Android apps from a Linux desktop? Then you’d have access to all your apps and games from a nice big screen and with substantially more resources than your typical tablet provides. It would be even cooler if said Linux distribution could work on older 32 bit systems as well as modern 64 bit PCs. Then you could take one of those old laptops you keep around and turn it into an Android game machine. Big screen. No battery drain issues. You could play for hours!
Not that I’m focusing on games, mind you. 🙂
PrimeOS is a nice mix of Linux desktop and Android, running Linux kernel 4.19.27. It has the Google Play store built in so all you have to do is log in to your Google account and you can start loading up your favorite apps.
Not that I’m obsessed with gaming, but PrimeOS lets you use your mouse and keyboard, using DecaPro key mapping, for gaming. There’s also a dedicated “Gaming Centre” app that suggests and keeps track of games.
You can download PrimeOS from https://primeos.in .
Other Stuff
Let’s talk about stuff and things. Maybe.
Until next time . . . A votre santé! Bon appétit!
— Marcel Gagné