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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)

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