The new operating system for e-learning In early May, young developer Rudra Saraswat announced his first personal project – Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04. Today, two months later, Saraswat also announced the first stable release of the new operating system UbuntuED, which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and built specifically for students.
UbuntuEd 20.04 'Focal Fossa' is a new distribution built for educational purposes and covers students from high schools to universities. According to the creator, the operating system is an improved version of Edubuntu Linux, which was once an official Ubuntu distribution, and was intended to meet the needs of online classrooms.
In other words, UbuntuEd is an alternative to Edubuntu, which can be used by children for their daily needs. In addition to common purposes, the operating systems also share some of their technical features. For example, the new UbuntuEd comes with a default unity7 environment. However, when logging into the system, users have the option to use the classic GNOME environment.
Installed Applications in UbuntuEd 20.04:
As we already mentioned, the main purpose of the distribution is e-learning. For the same reason, the operating system comes with several applications such as Google Classroom, Eclipse, and Tuxmath. In addition, the system also provides the ability to install additional applications, conveniently and quickly.
In order for the operating system to provide age-appropriate applications ,Saraswat decided to divide the applications into 4 different packages. More specifically, there is the ubuntued meta preschool package, which is for children under 6 years old, ubuntued meta primary for ages 6-12, ubuntued meta secondary for children between 13-18 years old, and ubuntued meta tertiary, which is built for all students.
Below is a list of the most important applications in the packages:
- Preschool: tuxpaint, gamine, parley, tuxtype, tuxmath
- Primary: gnome-calculator, gamine, laby, tuxpaint, tuxmath, tuxtype
- Secondary: gnome-calculator, laby, caliber, marble, einstein, lybniz, chemtool, inkscape, fritzing, tuxtype
- Tertiary: gnome-calculator, caliber, chemtool, laby, openscad, inkscape, step, fritzing
In case you want to try UbuntuEd, you can go to the project page and download the ISO file.
