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As you may have noticed, the Edubuntu project have been going through some big changes recently. Something we have been working on with the Ubuntu Community Council for a while now is to have the Edubuntu Council back to a reasonable size (5 members). As you may have noticed, the Edubuntu project have been going through some big changes recently. Something we have been working on with the Ubuntu Community Council for a while now is to have the Edubuntu Council back to a reasonable size (5 members). Edubuntu is an educational operating system that is a part of the Ubuntu family. It aims to make Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system, a great choice for the computing needs of children, students, parents, teachers, and schools. It brings many of the best educational open-source applications and tools to the Ubuntu operating system. With [...] The Hardy Heron Roadmap has over 130 new ideas that have been proposed thus far. I’ve examined each one of these ideas in detail, threw out the ones that weren’t interesting to me, wrote an explanation for each, and sorted the list into three categories: User Experience, Of course, the juiciest items have already made headlines, such [...] I can usually tell what the new Microsoft anti-Linux FUD is by reading what Rob Enderle writes. Not that I seek it out. People send it to me. He’s as reliable as Old Faithful at spilling the strategies, just as he channeled SCOthink before. I found it very helpful, by the way. Thanks for being [...] The Ubuntu Technical Board voted yesterday to ship Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy”) with Compiz enabled by default. Although Compiz has been featured in Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe prerelesases, the board has had difficulty determining whether or not it is reliable and functionally complete enough to warrant inclusion in the final release. The community-driven Edubuntu project aims to create a version of Ubuntu specially tailored for use in primary and secondary education. Perhaps the most useful feature present in the Edubuntu OS is the Linux Terminal Server Project environment, whose applications are not limited just to eduction. The LTSP model centers around one powerful machine that acts [...] Out of all of the Ubuntu derivative distributions, the one that’s received the least amount of attention really has been Edubuntu. With a slogan of “Linux for Young Human Beings”, Edubuntu is a Linux distribution designed for students and use in school environments. It includes several applications for students and the younger ones that cater [...] “When you need to set up a computer lab, classroom or meeting room in a hurry, look no further than Edubuntu, ‘Linux for Young Human Beings.’ Edubuntu is targeted at the classroom, but it’s a dandy Linux terminal server for all occasions. You can literally have an entire network up and and running in an [...] Folks, allow me to introduce the Gutsy Gibbon, who will be succeeding the Feisty Fawn as the focus of our development love in a few short weeks, for release in October 2007.†– Shuttleworth With Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu each deploying a different desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, and Xfce respectively), how do each of these distributions compare performance-wise? We have taken two systems — one with dual Intel Clovertown processors and the other an AMD Sempron — and tested out each of these distributions in some of our commonly [...] Welcome to Feisty Fawn Herd 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04. Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems. The Edubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Edubuntu 6.10, | |||||
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