Editing Educational software (section)

===Custom platforms===
Some manufacturers regarded normal [[personal computer]]s as an inappropriate [[Computing platform|platform]] for learning software for younger children and produced custom child-friendly pieces of hardware instead. The hardware and software is generally combined into a single product, such as a child laptop-lookalike. The laptop keyboard for younger children follows an alphabetic order and the [[QWERTY]] order for the older ones.  The most well-known example are [[LeapFrog Enterprises|LeapFrog]] products. These include imaginatively designed [[handheld game console|hand-held console]]s with a variety of pluggable educational [[ROM cartridge|game cartridges]] and book-like electronic devices into which a variety of [[electronic book]]s can be loaded. These products are more portable than [[laptop]] computers, but have a much more limited range of purposes, concentrating on [[literacy]].

While mainstream operating systems are designed for general usages, and are more or less customized for education only by the application sets added to them, a variety of software manufacturers, especially [[Linux distribution]]s, have sought to provide integrated platforms for specifically education.