Guadalinex-Edu Beta Announcement

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Guadalinex-EDU: New educational distribution based in Jaunty

Guadalinex Edu is a new GNU / Linux distribution developed by the Advanced Center for ICT Schools Management (CGA), initially created for use by the educational community of Andalucia, Spain which will be available for teachers and students within the domestic sphere. Guadalinex Edu distribution is equivalent to the future Guadalinex V6 citizen but oriented to the educational sector.

Looking for the highest possible level of stability in the distribution, the CGA will be releasing a beta version of the distribution, installable by anyone who wants it. The aim is to involve the educational community in the stabilization and development of Guadalinex Edu, before its deployment in local schools.

Guadalinex Edu Beta 1 is fully functional, but should not forget that this is a beta version which may contain errors from both: the applications included by the CGA in the distribution, and errors coming from the base distribution where it must be installed (Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu 9.04), so it is not recommended for use in production computers and, in any case, it is recommend making a backup of important data before installation.

Within an ICT Center, Guadalinex Edu will take advantage of the network infrastructure and servers from the center to offer:

• a system that allows any member of the center to become remote user of its data in any computer regardless of the dependence location in the center.

• a system for transmitting multimedia content among computers in a classroom

• a system of interaction between students and teachers via the computer

For domestic users, Guadalinex Edu is offered as a meta package to be installed on Ubuntu Jaunty and offers tons of applications like:

• Celestia (space simulator)

• Kstars (Planetarium)

• Kgeography (Maps)

• Parley (Vocabulary)

• Squeak

• DRAE Spanish Search tool (Lemurae)

• GNU Octave

• Kbruch (fractions)

• Kig

• KmPlot

• KSeg (Geometry)

• Mathwar (Game of calculus)

• QtOctave (numerical calculus)

• Freemind

• Blender

• Audacity

• Festival GUI

• KTouch (Typing)

• Kompozer

• Umbrello

• K3b

• Kino

Plus all the benefits of Guadalinex:

• Spanish translation of many applications

• Support for electronic ID Card

And Ubuntu:

• A wide range of media devices support (kernel 2.6.28)

• Firefox 3

• OpenOffice 3

• XOrg 1.6 , etc

Installation instructions for home users are available here(In spanish)

If you have a Launchpad account, you can add comments and report bugs at the following addresses (if you do not have an account, you can register with Launchpad for one)

Comments:
https://launchpad.net/guadalinexedu/+addquestion

Bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/guadalinexedu

Original link in spanish here

nxvl @ April 1, 2009