Linux Distributions For Students & Educators
GNU/Linux is an open source operating system, developed and maintained by community of developers. There are many Linux distributions/flavors aimed at different things with various kind of strengths and weaknesses. Today we are going to talk about those flavors which aim at Education.
Edubuntu
Edubuntu is a grassroots movement, It aim to get Ubuntu into schools, homes and communities and make it easy for users to install and maintain their systems. Edubuntu team members are students, teachers, parents and hackers who believe that learning and knowledge should be available to everyone who wants to improve themselves and the world around them. Their 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. The majority of the technical work that the Edubuntu team performs occurs within the Ubuntu project. All the packages we work on are available in the Ubuntu software repositories and the Edubuntu DVD is built from the exact same repositories as the Ubuntu discs and other official derivatives.
UberStudent
UberStudent is a free and open-source computer operating system and collection of programs aimed toward especially higher education and secondary students and their teachers and schools. Dubbing itself "Linux for Learners", UberStudent describes itself as "a cohesive academic success curriculum integrated into an installable, easy-to-use, and full-featured learning platform" aimed at increasing overall student learning and academic computer literacy, and lifelong computer fluency. Its additional aim is to increase the adoption of free and open-source computing platforms, like itself, within higher education and secondary schools. It is designed around a "core academic skills approach to student success," which it describes as "the research and writing, reading, studying, and self-management skills that are essential to all students regardless of their academic major." UberStudent has been described by reviewers as "highly in tune with student needs", "loaded with student-friendly tools and customizations","perfect for the higher education environment", succeeding at its aims "with aplomb, elegance, and power", "a smart pick for getting your actual schoolwork done", and "fantastic and delicious". It received a positive review in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which cited UberStudent's completeness for doing core academic work, user-friendliness, and free and open-source nature. Sixty days after UberStudent's official 15 July 2010 release of UberStudent 1.0 Cicero Full Edition, its first non-beta, DistroWatch ranked it the most popular Linux distribution for education worldwide and the 32nd most popular overall out of the 316 varied distributions tracked by the organization. Weeks after the 4.1 release, it ranked as the fifth-most popular Linux distribution in the world.
openSUSE-Edu
openSUSE Education team present openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education). It can very much satisfy a school’s requirements from servers to desktops. It comes with a lot of useful applications for students, teachers, IT administrators and even parents.
Skolelinux (Debian-Edu)
Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines to be added via GOsa², a comfortable web interface. A netbooting environment is prepared, so after initial installation of the main server all other machines can be installed via the network. Older computers (even up to ten or so years old) can be used as LTSP thin clients or diskless workstations, booting from the network without any installation and configuration at all. The Debian Edu school server provides an LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, a DHCP server, a web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive. Schools can choose between the desktop environments Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, MATE, KDE Plasma and LXQt.
fedoraEDU
The Fedora Education SIG (Edu SIG) seeks to optimize Fedora for use by teachers and students, both within and outside of the context of educational institutions. fedoraEDU is bundled with a lot of educational applications. It also comes with a lot of applications that target specific age groups such as gcompris(age 2+), sugar(6+) and Celestia (14+). FedoraEdu is a functional flavor which enables and promotes the use of open source educational software.
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