I want to download latest Edubuntu version from the official Edubuntu website, but its links fail. Can you fix it?
Sorry for my English and best regards, Stano.
I recently noticed during a reboot of my machine that a splash page came up saying Edubuntu, which I understand is a particular flavour of Ubuntu. When I installed Ubuntu, it never used to say that, and it was not the version I installed. I installed 12.04 32 bit.
Can anyone explain how my operating system changed to change to Edubuntu? can this happen through some kind of system update?
I have always used Edubuntu rather than Ubuntu because I have many children including home educated ones who casually use the education offerings. I appreciate many but not all of the extra offerings. I never got beyond 8.04.4 LTS, so am considering updating. I note now with Edubuntu 12.04 it is >2GB i.e.4 times bigger, even apparently using squashfs. I do now have to consider whether the extra resources are worth it in each computer in my household.
I am sick of reading over and over again 'Edubuntu is Ubuntu with extras such as blah blah', and in a different place the same thing but with a different blah blah. I downloaded Edubuntu 12.04 and ran it 'live'.
Can't say I got on at all with the Unity Interface (this can be changed when installed), but the apparent education stuff seemed quite small and pathetic, I am obviously not finding it. Is there anywhere a FULL LIST of what Edubuntu has pre-installed has over Ubuntu, so a sensible decision can be made whether to go for it, or just add packages that look relevant to me to Ubuntu.
Is there truly no other difference between Ubuntu/Edubuntu but the extra educational packages? (I for example have no school server, but if I understood exactly what is involved, with the number of computers in the house, it may be worth creating one!)
I am serving in the Peace Corps in a poor Spanish speaking country. I manage several small computer labs. For reasons of limited networking, old computers, and unreliable electricity, I decided that the best solution for teaching computers here is to have the computers boot up to Edubuntu Live CDs. The learning games can't be beat for the price. However, I need to make modifications in the LiveCDs for this to happen, and I'm not sure what is the easiest way to do this. Specifically, the most important changes I need to make is:
- to remove the install option in boot up.
- to add an offline encyclopedia.
I figured out that the best offline encyclopedia option is a copy of Wikipedia. Since I need a Spanish language Wikipedia, I'm probably going to go with Evopedia. Although if someone has a better suggestion I'm all ears.
What I'm not certain of is how to add it to the Live CD. Much of this I'm just going to have to figure out for myself, but a few pointers should would help. Do I just add the .deb packages to the "Pool" folder? That seems too easy.
I've been playing with IsoMaster, which is fine for adding whole files, but no so good for editing them. Do I need to do this from a command line?
Or is the best way to build a PC the way I want it and then make an iso image of it? If so, how do I make it bootable?
I know a few things about Linux, but I'm not a guru, so please have sympathy on someone who just wants to do some good in the world.
How I can deploy Edubuntu from one machine to many machines in the same domain and authenticate to Windows Active Directory?