[Fwd: Re: Call for testers - Edubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) - Preview]

[Conrad Newton]

>From Jane Weideman on Thursday, 2005-09-22 at 12:54:07 +0200:
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Maikun <dlist at ubuntuforums.org>
> To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Call for testers - Edubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) - Preview
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:53:24 -0400
> 
> Will a live-cd version of Edubuntu be released?
> 
> I would gladly test it, but I don't have space to install it.
> 
> 
> 
> Also, my wife is a physics  and math teacher  in secondary school, and
> altough the computers will stay windows, she wants a Live linux CD with
> edu programs to work with her students. Skolelinux and the like are
> either too old (KDE's edutainment has become only really usefull since
> 3.4, for example), or not localized in German. So I think Edubuntu
> live-cds localized in different languages would be extremely useful for
> teachers who work on Windows PCs, but want to use some Linux opensource
> software. It is MUCH more difficult to get the system admins to install
> Linux on all PCs.

Depending on your definition of "recent", you might want
to try Snofrix:

http://www.skolelinux.org/~conrad/snofrix/html/de/programs.html
http://www.skolelinux.org/~conrad/snofrix/html/us/download.html
http://www.skolelinux.org/~conrad/snofrix.html

It was released this summer, with KDE 3.3 and OOo 1.1.3,
neither of which is especially old.  I suggest you try it
rather than dismissing it out of hand ...  ;-)

Conrad