Edubuntu Looks To Re-Establish Itself In 2023

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Edubuntu Looks To Re-Establish Itself In 2023

One of the early alternative spins of Ubuntu back in the day was Edubuntu as an education-focused flavor of Ubuntu shipping with various educational packages pre-installed and an optimized workflow for students. Edubuntu gradually faded away but in 2023 is looking to re-establish itself and become an official flavor under new leadership...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Edubuntu-2023

[kylew77]

Maybe they should pick a UI that looks more like Chromebooks or an IPAD that students actually use in school in recent years and not gnome, just a thought. But anyways, kudos to the team and wish them all the best exposing students to an OS like Linux at a young age is a good thing in my opinion!

[ElectricPrism]

I think the name is a terrible foundation to build on.

I also think the value in creating a education oriented Ubuntu would have the most value in repurposing old machines and also selling new machines on the basis of No Monthly Costs. Pay Once. Own Forever.

I am glad that the other distributions don't have the Ubuntu naming schema.

Edudora

Debiastudio

GNunistallmanOS

[sophisticles]

Another solution in search of a problem.

[Ironmask]

Maybe they should pick a UI that looks more like Chromebooks or an IPAD that students actually use in school in recent years and not gnome, just a thought. But anyways, kudos to the team and wish them all the best exposing students to an OS like Linux at a young age is a good thing in my opinion!

Doesn't default GNOME3 look exactly like that, though? That's one of it's biggest criticisms.
I hope you're not referring to the screenshot, that's an ancient screenshot of Ubuntu when it still used GNOME2.

[Danny3]

I think it would've been better with KDE.

[Vistaus]

Maybe they should pick a UI that looks more like Chromebooks or an IPAD that students actually use in school in recent years and not gnome, just a thought. But anyways, kudos to the team and wish them all the best exposing students to an OS like Linux at a young age is a good thing in my opinion!

For an iPad-like experience, there's Cutefish: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cutefish

[stiiixy]

No to emulating what other OS's do. Why? Kids are surprisingly flexible and adaptable, if they're not autistic and get upset at change (so a PC is the least of their worries). Flexibility was part and parcel of our upbringing in the 80's; the sheer number of options was astounding. DOS's galore, GUI's from Apple and Amiga (damn, that 3D), the list goes on.

Nothing worse than hearing from a narrow minded old fart "oh, I only know Window's". They never do, and Windows changes its colours every release anyways.

Also, didn't Edubuntu have LTSP/thin client provisioning?

[cooperate]

All I can think of is this https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/...-distribution/

Wouldn’t choosing a set of packages to install in the ubuntu installer be better?

[danboid]

Also, didn't Edubuntu have LTSP/thin client provisioning?

That's what I thought.

I wrote some notes on integrating ZFS with LTSP so that users get snapshots of their home dirs.

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/danboid/dox/blob/main/LTSP/LTSP+ZFS.html