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How to setup Edu servers on Li-f-e

July 22nd, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

openSUSE Edu Li-f-e comes loaded with softwares useful for educational institutions, including servers that do everything from course management, student information system to library management. Although the setup is fairly easy for sysadmins who know what exactly to do, it is quite a difficult task for new Linux user or a teacher without any prior sysadmin knowledge wanting to try out. Get in touch with us if you would like to contribute to openSUSE Education project by creating a script or better still a GUI to automate these tasks.

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openSUSE Launch Party at MSU, BCA, Vadodara

July 18th, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

We had a great time yesterday showing off the latest openSUSE Edu Li-f-e based on openSUSE 11.3. Over 120 people packed in the persentation hall, many of them had to stand throughout. I am sure everyone present were impressed with what they saw, they all took home Li-f-e DVD to get the first hand experience.

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openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.3 available now!

July 17th, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

openSUSE Education team is very thrilled to announce the availability of openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education(Li-f-e). Li-f-e is built on openSUSE 11.3. The aim of this DVD is to provide complete education and development resources for parents, students, teachers as well as IT admins running labs at educational institutes

It comes bundled with a wealth of softwares carefully selected to meet every need. Educational softwares covering wide range of subjects such as IT, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, electronics etc catering to students right from preschool to research.

Softwares for graphic designers include GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and more. Office applications to work on pdfs and any office formats including those of the latest MicroSoft Office is included.

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openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.3 RC1

July 7th, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

Hello Community

openSUSE 11.3 is almost Gold, with that openSUSE Education team is also ready with the “Release Candidate” of Li-f-e based on 11.3.

Some of the highlights of this upcoming release:

Tons of Education softwares
KDE, GNOME, Sugar desktops
Full multimedia support
Latest LTSP including iTALC support out of the box
Much much more for you to discover…

The DVD iso image doubles as live USB image too, just “dd” the iso to 4GB+ USB stick to get fully functional desktop/server on a stick. Check out this development release to report any bugs or missing feature before we go gold.

We are looking for volunteers to do a detailed preview for the launch, drop us a line if you are interested.

Have a lot of fun!

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openSUSE Edu: Li-f-e theme for 11.3

June 14th, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

For openSUSE Edu: Linux for Education based on openSUSE 11.3 we will be going with great new default openSUSE 11.3 theme by Jakub “Jimmac” Steiner with small addition of our own, here is how it looks.

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Red hot Geeko

May 25th, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

Another gecko picture, this one was taken at Saputara.

From Paragliding

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A lizard

May 3rd, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

Just a lizard.

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Trophy from IBM Develothon 2010

April 27th, 2010 by Jigish Gohil

Went to IBM Develothon here in Baroda(Vadodara) today, did a small presentation on openSUSE Edu Li-f-e during the “unconference”. This is what I brought home