Edubuntu is a branch of the Ubuntu Linux project designed for classroom use. The Edubuntu.org website went live on 2005-10-12, and the first version, 5.10, was released on 2005-10-13, in parallel with Ubuntu and Kubuntu's 5.10 version releases. Features include a built-in Linux Terminal Server, educational applications such as GCompris and the KDE Edutainment Suite, Tux4kids. For the South African ideology, see Ubuntu (ideology). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ...
Edubuntu has been developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists around the world. The aim of Edubuntu is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill should be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less, and then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek.
Principal design goals of Edubuntu are centralized management of configuration, users, and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in a classroom setting. Equally important is the gathering together of the best available free software and digital materials for education.
Edubuntu is built on top of the Ubuntu base, and incorporates the LTSP thin client architecture, as well as education-specific applications, aimed at the 6-18 age group. It also aims to allow resource poor environments to maximise their available (older) equipment.
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Screenshots of Edubuntu 5.10 Official at OSDir.com
Edubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.
Edubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free and open source software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
Edubuntu starts with the Linux kernel version 2.6 and Gnome 2.12, and covers every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet applications, educational software (such as GCompris and the KDE education suite) to internet access applications, web server software, email software, programming languages and tools and of course several games.
Of particular interest to educators is the new Edubuntu distribution, which is a special version of Ubuntu Linux tailored for schools.
The Edubuntu team has scraped together some of the best of the available open source educational programs, which I'm afraid is still a fairly thin and spotty selection.
Edubuntu also has a cartoon/primitive "kid friendly" graphical theme, the first incarnation of which I'm afraid is an aesthetic disaster.
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