Fedora Education
Summary
This spin is being designed for mainly educational and scientific purposes and therefore contains a special selections of applications related to these topics.
Past Releases
Owner(s)
- Name: SebastianDziallas
- email: sdz AT fedoraproject DOT org
- Name: EDU SIG
- email: fedora-education-list AT redhat DOT com
Detailed Description
Being targeted at students and pupils (but also teachers), this spin is focussed on providing a well-selected collection of useful applications for educational purposes. The users will be able to use a XFCE desktop, which comes along with the KDE Education Suite and further applications, including office and graphic tools. On the other hand, the Sugar Desktop Environment, which has originally been used by the OLPC, but is now directly available in Fedora, will also be available.
Benefit to Fedora
This effort helps to increase Fedora's visibility in the educational sector (among the already existing ones like K12LTSP & OLPC) and to enlarge our community. We are going to release a spin, which allows students, as well as educators and teachers to use the advantages of open source software not only in classrooms or at work, but also at home.
Kickstart File
http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/kickstart/livecd-education.ks
ISO Name / FS Label
- Fedora-11-i686-Education
- Fedora-11-x86_64-Education
Dependencies
To build:
- livecd-tools
There're no further dependencies needed right now.
Scope / Testing
List of included apps:
The spin uses XFCE & Sugar as its desktop environments!
| name | link |
| education | |
| avogadro | http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/ |
| kdeedu | http://edu.kde.org/ |
| graphics | |
| blender | http://www.blender.org/ |
| gimp | http://www.gimp.org/ |
| inkscape | http://www.inkscape.org/ |
| mirage | http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ |
| office | |
| abiword | http://www.abisource.com/ |
| gnumeric | http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ |
| evince | http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ |
| internet | |
| firefox | http://www.mozilla.com/ |
| empathy | http://live.gnome.org/Empathy |
| alpine | http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ |
| audio & video | |
| totem | http://live.gnome.org/Totem |
| others | |
| geany | http://www.geany.org/ |
| gnash | http://www.gnashdev.org/ |
Testing might be coordinated with the EDU and OLPC SIGs, as well as with the Sugar Community, since those also might help with gathering further feedback.
Comments and Discussion
- This spin is going to replace the Education Math Spin.
- See Talk:Education_Spin