Edubuntu
Edubuntu
Edubuntu
Edubuntu
3 years ago
Contents
1Features
2Project goals
3Versions
4See also
5References
6External links
Features[edit]
Included with Edubuntu is the Linux Terminal Server Project and many applications
relevant to education including GCompris, KDE Edutainment Suite, Sabayon Profile
Manager, Pessulus Lockdown Editor, Edubuntu Menueditor, LibreOffice, Gnome Nanny
and iTalc. Edubuntu CDs were previously available free of charge through
their Shipit service; since version 8.10 (2008) it is only available as a download in a
DVD format.
Edubuntu's default GUI is Unity, while GNOME is still available.[1] Unity has been the
default GUI since the release of 12.04. Since release 7.10, KDE is also available as
Edubuntu KDE. In 2010, Edubuntu and the Qimo 4 Kids project were working on
providing Qimo within Edubuntu,[2] but this was not done as it would not have fitted on a
CD.[3]
Project goals[edit]
The primary goal of Edubuntu was to enable an educator with limited technical
knowledge and skills to set up a computer lab or an on-line learning environment in an
hour or less and then effectively administer that environment.
The principal design goals of Edubuntu were centralized management of configuration,
users and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in a classroom
setting. Equally important was the gathering together of the best available free software
and digital materials for education. According to a statement of goals on the official
Edubuntu website: "Our aim is to put together a system that contains all the best free
software available in education and make it easy to install and maintain." [4]
It also aimed to allow low income environments to maximize utilisation of their available
(older) equipment.
Versions[edit]
The first Edubuntu release coincided with the release of Ubuntu 5.10, which was
codenamed Breezy Badger on 2005-10-13. With the 8.04 Hardy Heron release of
Edubuntu it was given the name of Ubuntu Education Edition[5] and was changed to be
an add-on to a standard Ubuntu installation instead of being an installable LiveCD.
From version 9.10 onwards, Edubuntu changed to be available as a full system DVD
instead of an Add-on CD.[6] Edubuntu is also installable[7] via a selection of "edubuntu"
packages for all distributions using the official Ubuntu repositories
(Ubuntu and Kubuntu mainly).
Since 14.04, Edubuntu became LTS-only;[8] Edubuntu announced that they would skip
the 16.04 LTS update and that they planned on staying with 14.04 due to lack of
contributors.[9]
13 October
5.10[10] Breezy Badger 13 April 2007
2005
18 October
7.10[15][16] Gutsy Gibbon 18 April 2009
2007
30 October
8.10[19] Intrepid Ibex 30 April 2010
2008
29 October
9.10[21][22] Karmic Koala 29 April 2011
2009
10 October
10.10[25][26] Maverick Meerkat 10 April 2012
2010
13 October
11.10[29][30] Oneiric Ocelot 9 May 2013
2011
18 October
12.10[33][34][35] Quental Quetzal 16 May 2014
2012
Legend:
Old version
Latest version
Future release
See also[edit]