Edubuntu 23.04 Beta Released!

[Erich Eickmeyer]

[image: edubuntu-23.04_banner]

*Edubuntu is back as an official flavor of Ubuntu!*

The Edubuntu Council is pleased to announce the first beta in nine years of
Edubuntu! This one is 23.04 beta, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”. While it is
free of any showstopper installer bugs and is representative of what will
be the final release, bugs may be found within.

Images may be downloaded from
https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/23.04/beta.

For those looking for Raspberry Pi images, while they are planned, they
will be unavailable for this release.

*Where’s the website?*
We’re still working on that. A ticket is in with Canonical IS to
reestablish the website, so hopefully some progress is being made there.
All we can do at this point is sit and wait. In the meantime, this is where
we will post items because this is the only place we have.

*New Features*
This isn’t the Edubuntu you once knew! Gone are the days of the Linux
Terminal Server Project (LTSP), which was long-since spun off into its own.
Instead, we’re focusing on making classroom and parental administration
easy. Since this is the first release in almost a decade, those features
are still in-development with many still evolving and being planned.

We plan to showcase more of the included and curated applications,
including the application folders in the Application Overview, in the
official release announcement on *April 20th*, but for now we will show off
the pieces we have developed.

The *Edubuntu Installer* is the important piece, which helps select the age
group the system will be targeted towards. After the system has been
installed, opening this application lets you install and remove the
installed software age groups:

[image: Screenshot from 2023-03-30 05-58-01]

It also lets you select the default desktop wallpaper and dock defaults for
the target age group for the system, where you can choose from four
different defaults, which take effect upon logout and login:

[image: Screenshot from 2023-03-30 05-59-21]

[image: Edubuntu-FourDefaults]

Another feature we have added is the *Edubuntu Menu Administrator* which
allows system administrators to remove icons from the Application Overview
for non-administrator users. This works system-wide for now. Future plans
include allowing this on a per-user basis for more atomic control.

[image: Screenshot from 2023-03-30 06-12-34]

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*Known Issues*

   - KDE/Qt apps use a blue accent color as opposed to a red accent color
   or whatever accent color is set by the user in the System Settings. This is
   due to adwaita-qt being unable to respect the Yaru color schemes. There
   is no known fix currently, however future releases may have other
   configurations which allow this. There are ongoing discussions
   <https://invent.kde.org/teams/vdg/issues/-/issues/26>.
   - The system installer (Ubiquity) provides a minimal install option.
   This is ineffective for this release.
   - As Edubuntu shares a desktop with and is based on Ubuntu Desktop, any
   known issues can be found in the official Ubuntu Release Notes
   <https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lunar-lobster-release-notes/31910>.
   - Individual applications included with Edubuntu may have their own
   known issues. Please consult upstream release notes for those applications
   before filing bug reports.

We do encourage you to test and report any bugs, but not here as this isn’t
a bug tracker, nor is it a support site. Information about reporting bugs
can be found here <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs>.
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>From both Amy and I, we thank you for following this journey, and we’re so
pleased to bring Edubuntu back to the family!
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