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Thank you for your interest in Edubuntu 7.10 - the
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<emphasis>Gutsy Gibbon</emphasis> - released in October 2007.
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<para>Thank you for your interest in Edubuntu 8.04 - the <emphasis>Hardy Heron</emphasis> - released in April 2008.</para>
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Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on
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<ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com"><phrase>Ubuntu</phrase></ulink>, a complete operating system
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that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to the public. As an
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education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for:
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<para>Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com"><phrase>Ubuntu</phrase></ulink>, a complete operating system that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to the public. As an education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for: <itemizedlist>
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<para>Educators and school personnel who would like to set up Edubuntu in a networked learning environment.</para>
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<para>There are many different operating systems based on Linux: Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, RedHat, and Mandriva are examples. Edubuntu is yet another contender in what is already a highly competitive world. So what makes Edubuntu different?</para>
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Edubuntu aims to create a distribution that provides an up-to-date and coherent
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Linux system for educational desktop and server computing. Edubuntu includes a
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number of carefully selected packages from the Debian distribution, which
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Ubuntu is based on, and retains its powerful package management system which
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allows easy installation and clean removal of programs. Unlike most
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distributions that ship with a large amount of software that may or may not be
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of use, Edubuntu's list of packages is reduced to a number of important
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applications of high quality and educational importance.
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<para>Edubuntu aims to create a distribution that provides an up-to-date and coherent Linux system for educational desktop and server computing. Edubuntu includes a number of carefully selected packages from the Debian distribution, which Ubuntu is based on, and retains its powerful package management system which allows easy installation and clean removal of programs. Unlike most distributions that ship with a large amount of software that may or may not be of use, Edubuntu's list of packages is reduced to a number of important applications of high quality and educational importance.</para>
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By focusing on quality, Edubuntu produces a robust and feature-rich computing
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environment that is suitable for use in both home and educational environments.
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The project takes the time required to focus on finer details and is able to
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release a version featuring the latest and greatest of today's software once
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every 6 months. Edubuntu is available in downloads for the i386
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(386/486/PentiumII/III/IV and Athlon/Duron/Sempron processors) and AMD64
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(Athlon64, Opteron, and new 64-bit Intel processors).
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<para>By focusing on quality, Edubuntu produces a robust and feature-rich computing environment that is suitable for use in both home and educational environments. The project takes the time required to focus on finer details and is able to release a version featuring the latest and greatest of today's software once every 6 months. Edubuntu is available in downloads for the i386 (386/486/PentiumII/III/IV and Athlon/Duron/Sempron processors) and AMD64 (Athlon64, Opteron, and new 64-bit Intel processors).</para>
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<title>The Desktop</title>
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The desktop is what you see after you log in to your computer and what you
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use to manage and run applications. The default desktop environment for
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Edubuntu is <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</ulink>, a leading
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UNIX and Linux desktop suite and development platform.
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<para>The desktop is what you see after you log in to your computer and what you use to manage and run applications. The default desktop environment for Edubuntu is <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</ulink>, a leading UNIX and Linux desktop suite and development platform.</para>
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Another leading UNIX and Linux desktop is <ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDE</ulink>. The <ulink url="http://www.kubuntu.org">Kubuntu</ulink> project offers Edubuntu users
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an alternative choice to the default GNOME desktop environment. Thanks to the
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efforts of the Kubuntu team, Edubuntu users are now able to install and use the
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KDE desktop easily on their system. To get a working install of Kubuntu on an
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Edubuntu install, install the <application>edubuntu-desktop-kde</application>
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package. Once <application>edubuntu-desktop-kde</application> is installed, one
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can choose to use either a Gnome or KDE desktop environment.
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<para>Another leading UNIX and Linux desktop is <ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDE</ulink>. The <ulink url="http://www.kubuntu.org">Kubuntu</ulink> project offers Edubuntu users an alternative choice to the default GNOME desktop environment. Thanks to the efforts of the Kubuntu team, Edubuntu users are now able to install and use the KDE desktop easily on their system. To get a working install of Kubuntu on an Edubuntu install, install the <application>edubuntu-desktop-kde</application> package. Once <application>edubuntu-desktop-kde</application> is installed, one can choose to use either a Gnome or KDE desktop environment.</para>
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The Edubuntu version numbering scheme is based on the date we release a version
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of the distribution. The version number comes from the year and month of the
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release rather than reflecting the actual version of the software. Our first
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release (Warty Warthog) was in October 2005 so its version was 5.10. This
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version (Gutsy Gibbon) was released in October 2007 so its version number is
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<para>The Edubuntu version numbering scheme is based on the date we release a version of the distribution. The version number comes from the year and month of the release rather than reflecting the actual version of the software. Our first release (Breezy Badger) was in October 2005 so its version was 5.10. This version (Hardy Heron) was released in April 2008 so its version number is 8.04.</para>