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DebianEdu Announced

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-install-ucblogo dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "There's been an announcement on debian-devel-announce about a new subproject, DebianEdu, which "aims to make Debian the best distribution available for educational use." As a developer with some stuff in Debian Jr., I'm happy to see some focus on an honest-to-goodness education project!"

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  1. good stuff by Lord+Prox · · Score: 2, Informative

    I work with a local school (Long Beach School for Adults) recycling machines and one of the biggest pains in the butt is having to buy an OS license (redmond tax). This is going to be a big thing for me and I am glad to see an educational directed distro.

  2. Need to outperform closed source options by jukal · · Score: 5, Informative
    I would think that not all of the benefits of open source are true in education, as in business use for example. Which means that the open source option needs to outperform the commercial option by other criterias (functionality, performance, feature set, reliability) - not price.

    As commercial vendors tend to provide schools and universities with cheap or free licenses for educational uses - to make the students familiar with their products so that they would buy them when they finally graduate and enter work-life. So, am I terribly wrong if I assume that there is not the cost benefit or atleast it is not very significant?

  3. Re:It's about time by JohnFluxx · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah I grew up on borland compliers.

    Debian isn't exactly the first.
    kde have had a educational thread for ages, with libraries etc.

  4. A Little Late by Daemonik · · Score: 4, Informative
    As a developer with some stuff in Debian Jr., I'm happy to see some focus on an honest-to-goodness education project!
    There's at least 2 other Education oriented distributions already. Blue Linux and Seul.
  5. K12 by BeowulfSchaeffer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ummm, what about K12? http://k12ltsp.org/