14 DAY TRIAL // Here's another Christmas present for your kids if you use open-source software products: the GCompris educational software reached version 0.70, an important milestone that brings many goodies.
GCompris is a cross-platform application available for GNU/Linux, Android, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, and it's widely known as a high-quality educational software suite that consists of a collection of multiple activities for children aged 2 to 10.
GCompris 0.70 is the latest and most advanced stable build of the educational software suite, and it appears to sport a total of eight new activities contributed by various students during the Google Summer of Code event. It's an important milestone that finally switches to use the Qt GUI for the Windows version.
"It is an important release because we officially drop the Gtk+ version for Windows to use the Qt one. Everyone who bought the full version for the last two years will get a new activation code in a few days. Also, for people who like numbers, we are beyond 100,000 downloads in the Google Play Store," reads the announcement page.
New activities, new features, and many bug fixes
The eight new activities introduced in GCompris 0.70 include drawing of letters, drawing of numbers from 0 to 9, nine men morris game against Tux, nine men morris game with a friend, learning of Roman numbers, learning of splitting a given number of candies amongst children, and finding which words a given letter belongs to. The last activity allows children to build a given model by moving elements.
Among other new features implemented in GCompris 0.70, we can mention built-in search functionality, hint icon in the bar, support for the OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and Mageia operating systems, as well as word lists for Slovak and Belarusian languages.
Last but not least, the Romanian voices and word lists received multiple improvements and appear to be the most complete ones, so far. New graphics have been added for crane and new voices for the Brazilian Portuguese language. Download GCompris 0.70 for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows right now from our website.