I am pleased to announce that A few hours ago a new version of "Escuelas Linux" was released, this one with its most renewed version 6.2.
And it is that this distribution with little more than 20 years and counting (since last year was its 20th anniversary) has offered educational environments a non-profit open source operating system and applications.
About Linux Schools
If you do not know about the project of this distribution, I can tell you that this is a Linux distribution based on Bodhi Linux which its developers carry out a series of modifications in order to provide educational institutions with a system suitable for learning.
An important point to note about this Linux distribution is that It is one of the few that still continue with the development for the 32-bit architecture, so it is an excellent alternative for those teams with these processors.
Schools Linux is a very light distribution. Using Moksha as a graphical interface makes resource consumption low and enables it to be installed on practically any computer with requirements as low as 512 MB in RAM and 50 GB in hard disk.
Main news in Schools Linux 6.2
As was said, the new version of Escuelas Linux 6.2 arrives with which sus developers have made a series of updates to packages and system components, plus they have added new improvements to this version.
De the most important points that can be mentioned in this release of Escuelas Linux 6.2 We can highlight that the developers of the distribution have added a Developer Pack for the 6.x series of Escuelas Linux.
Linux Developer Pack Schools
This development package was added by the developers by Linux Schools Given the need of all those educational institutions that require their students to learn to program and develop applications.
With which this new Developer Pack adds more applications unlike the one offered for the 5 series of the distribution.
In ehe Developer Pack for Series 5 already included LiveCode, Scratch, Kturtle, Kate, and support for compiling C and C ++.
Among the new additions to this pack, we can find the following applications, which being frank are already essential today:
- Android Studio
- NetBeans and Eclipse
- PSeInt
- Karel J Robot Simulator
- MIT App Inventor
- SQLite
Schools Linux 6.2 Legacy Edition
On the other hand, another of the novelties of this launch is the introduction of being able to run the system in Live USB mode, so that anyone could test Escuelas Linux by running it from a USB stick.
As its developers comment:
Escuelas Linux Legacy is a special 32-bit edition designed so that our distribution can continue to be installed on computers with the low amount of RAM mentioned, making use of the "classic" installation method that characterized Escuelas Linux in previous versions.
While other distributions drop their 32-bit editions, we will continue to support the use of Linux on relatively old computers.
Other changes
De the other changes that we can highlight are the update of the components of this new release, packages of which the updates of the web browsers were received Firefox, Chrome / Chromium, Vivaldi, the applications Geogebra, LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, FreeOffice, Gimp, Krita, Gcompris, Teamviewer, Java, Flash Player y Terminology.
In addition, Schools Linux 6.2 added 3 new applications to its catalog which were:
- 2D Pencil
- PhysicaLab
- Thermography
Download Schools Linux 6.2
If you want to download this new version of the Linux distribution "Escuelas Linux 6.2" They can do so by going to the official website of the distro and in its download section you can get the link to download the image of this new release.
In addition to this, they will be able to consult more information and obtain some user manuals that they offer on the web. The link is this.
Clearly Escuelas Linux is an excellent project which deserves to be supported by the community. and not only her.
For my part, I am very pleased to see that this type of project continues, since there are few Linux distributions that are created for educational environments.