GCompris 0.70 Educational Software Brings Eight New Activities, Built-In Search

Here's another Christmas present for your kids, that, of course, 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...