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Edubuntu - Linux for education

Posted By Doug Belshaw On 15th October 2005 @ 19:33 In Open Source | Comments Disabled

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  Following on from my post about [3] K12LTSP and saving old PCs from the skip, [4] Edubuntu has just been launched. I have been using [5] Ubuntu, the Linux operating system from which is it derived, on my home desktop and have been pleased with the results. Both are absolutely free-of-charge to download, install and share. I’m going to install [4] Edubuntu on one of the PCs in my classroom as it supports [3] K12LTSP so should ‘talk’ to the server just fine! :-D

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#1 Pingback By Google Pack » mrbelshaw.co.uk/teaching On 7th January 2006 @ 16:12

[…] I’d like to point out that with Linux, the free and open-source operating system, occurrences of spyware and viruses are virtually unheard of. If you want to try it out, you might want to look at downloading a LiveCD, where the whole operating system boots from CD/DVD without touching the files on your hard disk. You can then install it if you enjoy using it. Distrowatch.org has a roundup of Linux ‘Distributions’ - I recommend Kanotix or Kubuntu for ‘newbies’. (I use OpenSUSE) Kubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu with the KDE graphical user environment, also used by Kanotix, which resembles Microsoft Windows. Edubuntu, another derivative of Ubuntu (which uses the slightly different but easy-to-use GNOME graphical user environment) mentioned in another post is focused on educational use. I use the latter on the computers in my classroom and pupils find Linux both intuitive and easy-to-use. […]

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