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.
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) with an age of probably 12 and above, 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.
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 as its desktop environment!
| 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 | |
| epdfview | http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/ |
| openoffice | http://www.openoffice.org/ |
| planner | http://live.gnome.org/Planner |
| tasque | http://live.gnome.org/Tasque |
| internet | |
| firefox | http://www.mozilla.com/ |
| empathy | http://live.gnome.org/Empathy |
| audio & video | |
| totem | http://live.gnome.org/Totem |
| others | |
| gbrainy | http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy |
| geany | http://www.geany.org/ |
The testing might be coordinated with the EDU SIG, since they also run special user-group tests to gather further feedback.
Slim needs a modification in slim.conf to login the user automatically. This is currently done via %post, but would be probably better added to the fedora-live-base.ks, since this isn't the only spin using it.
Comments and Discussion
- This spin is going to replace the Education Math Spin.
- See Talk:Education_Spin