With the release of Edubuntu 9.10 the Live CD is back in the form of a Live Installable DVD. With the two previous releases, other than our custom build, Edubuntu was only available as an "add-on". It's nice to have it back as a fully functional Live option of it's own.

Edubuntu is an educational operating system that is a part of the Ubuntu family. It aims to make Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system, a great choice for the computing needs of children, students, parents, teachers, and schools. It brings many of the best educational open-source applications and tools to the Ubuntu operating system.

What's New

• With version 9.10, Edubuntu has become a whole lot easier to install. Edubuntu now comes on a DVD and includes graphical and text-based installers, LTSP server installation, and the option to run the Edubuntu desktop directly from the DVD before making any changes to your computer.
• Ubuntu users can install Edubuntu's age-appropriate educational application bundles by searching for ''Edubuntu'' in the Ubuntu Software Center application located in the Applications menu.
• Sabayon, the Gnome user profile manager, which had extensive problems for the last few releases has been fixed and should be ready for general use.
• LTSP Cluster, available from the Ubuntu repositories in 9.10, provides an easy to use load-balancing solution for LTSP servers.

 

From this page you may obtain either the 32 or 64 bit live installable DVD. If you are unsure get the 32 bit version which will work on both 32 bit and 64 bit PCs. Although a 64 bit operating system can provide better performance under most circumstances, unless being used for heavy graphics editing or in a heavily used production server, there is generally little if any perceivable performance difference. In instances where Windows drivers may be required via ndiswrapper, 64 bit driver s may be unavailable.