openSUSE Education team once again presents Li-f-e (Linux for Education) built on hot new openSUSE 12.2 including all the post release updates. As always this edition of Li-f-e comes bundled with a lot of softwares useful for students, teachers, as well as IT admins of educational institutions. Apart from stable versions of KDE and Gnome, Cinnamon is also available.Sugar desktop suite makes a comeback thanks to the work of Xin Wang packaging it. Li-f-e also give full multimedia experience right out of the box without having to install anything extra. The live installable DVD iso stands at 3.3G as an incredible array of softwares from open source world are available on it, we have not just bundled them in, but have tried to integrate it with the distribution to give everything a seamless feel.
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Announcing the release of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.2
September 14th, 2012 by Jigish Gohillive-fat-stick
September 13th, 2012 by Jigish GohilSo you got a bunch of different openSUSE 12.2 live isos downloaded, to test them on a real machine you have to either burn them to CD/DVD or create live USB stick. Creating CD/DVD is a total waste after booting it once or twice. Creating bootable USB stick is a better thing to do, however openSUSE Hybrid iso creates USB stick that is not usable for any other purpose and the remaining space is locked till you make another partition, and even then the partition is not available on windows(tm).
Testing LTSP on openSUSE 12.2
August 23rd, 2012 by Jigish GohilopenSUSE in Education, Spreading Continue
May 17th, 2012 by M. Edwin ZakariaWhat do you feel as an open source developer, user, or enthusiast if you see this beautiful piece of software is used by hundred of schools and thousand of students? Great isn’t it? And that’s what happened here in a small dot on this earth in Yogyakarta Indonesia.
This program was initiated by the Government of Indonesia with the objective to introduce the open source and e-learning method to student and teacher. So three years ago I was contacted to help them to realize their dream, and here I’m now reporting that there are around 7300 openSUSE installation in 350 elementary and junior-high schools. We also use SLES in servers to provide repositories and e-learning materials in SCORM using Moodle. This is work in progress. We educate teachers to use openSUSE and also creating learning material so it is always in beta stage I think 😀
I want to say thank you to all the good people, my friends and co-workers, they are unknown in openSUSE community, even many of them are not subscribing the mailing list, but they are the true openSUSE ambassadors in Indonesia. They come to schools and persuade the teachers to use openSUSE. Without them this dream will never come true. Picture below show some of them smiling holding the openSUSE 12.1 promo DVD that AJ sent to me. You all great! Also picture of teachers while following our session about openSUSE.
All the good people
Teachers train using openSUSE
Finally we welcome everyone in openSUSE community if you want to visit Indonesia don’t forget to pay a visit to one of this schools in Yogyakarta and you will see how student are happy using it 😀
openSUSE at BITA2012
February 20th, 2012 by Jigish GohilWe once again participated in Baroda IT Association’s annual exhibition, gave out whole lot of promo DVDs and also ‘sold’ some openSUSE-Edu DVDs. Here are few of the pictures from the event:
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openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 out now!
December 22nd, 2011 by Jigish GohilopenSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system admins of educational institutions may need.
Education at OSC
September 18th, 2011 by kl_eisbaerEven if the last news from the Education project is just one month old, many people asked me during the openSUSE Conference why the Education project itself is currently so quiet.
Well, the “problem” is, that our Education team is currently more a team of technical specialists and many work is done behind the scenes without communication to “the outside”. So even if you did not hear from us for some weeks, we are still alive and coding!
Here are just a few examples, that are going on behind the scenes:
- Translation of the new openSUSE Education Portal is work in progress. Many thanks to our contributors Guillaume for the Français, Freek de Kruijf for the Nederlands, Sabarth for the Português, Gankov for the Русский (Russian) Portal translation!
- Kirill is currently reviewing all 425(!) packages in the Build Service Education project and submitting them to openSUSE Factory afterwards – so openSUSE 12.1 will come with a huge set of packages directly inside the official repository.
- Cyberorg is working on the next release of the openSUSE Edu Li-f-e DVD with the LTSP integration.
- Anubusg1 and many others (the project currently lists 44 maintainers) are doing the “normal” packaging stuff like upgrading and fixing packages for 12.1 (aka Factory)
The Desktop4Education project from Austria was again present at the Conference and gave a great overview of the current status of the project during their talk. Good to hear that the project is being frequently used as a reference case by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and as such promoted by them throughout Austria.
Talking with Andre Massing from the Simula Research Laboratory during his talk at the conference was quite interesting. Looks like the Science project might see some very interesting new packages in the next months. During the discussion, we agree that the Education and the Science project can share a lot of efforts in their project setups and organization. But they will stay separated (at least in the Build Service) as their audience is very different, even if they share some packages (which is currently done via links inside the Build Service).
openSUSE 11.4 & cheat sheet poster + dvd in Linux Magazine
April 9th, 2011 by Bruno FriedmannIf you don’t get it already our 11.4 DVD and a great double faced poster are here
Linux-Maganize issue 126
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openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 11.4 out now!
March 29th, 2011 by Jigish GohilopenSUSE Education team is proud to present openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 11.4. The image is a “hybrid” iso image which can be used to burn a Live DVD or to create a Live USB stick.
This release includes the latest carefully selected softwares for students, educators as well as parents. The software selection encompasses everything required to make computers productive for either home or educational use without having to install anything additional.
Welcome to BITA 2011
January 19th, 2011 by Jigish GohilHello Community
It is again that time of a year when we participate in our local IT mega event: Baroda IT Association Show 2011 (BITA 2011).
Drop in to see what we are up to if you happen to be around here during 23-26 January 2011.
There will of course be openSUSE Education Li-f-e DVDs available at our stall that is why BITA probably is green this time 😉
See you all there
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