Edubuntu 23.04 Released!

Thu Apr 20 17:31:18 UTC 2023

Posting on behalf of Project Leader Amy Eickmeyer, who is part of this list
but is currently at her full-time job.

Originally posted at
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/edubuntu-23-04-released/35281

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We are pleased to announce the release of Edubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar
Lobster”. This has been a project of love for my husband Erich and myself
and I am happy to see it back with the people where it belongs once again.

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My name is Amy Eickmeyer and have worked in early childhood for nearly
twenty years. When I was a preschool teacher, I remember using Edubuntu in
my classroom in 2015 so the children could learn simple, educational games.

Fast forward seven years and I’m at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague. I learned
that Edubuntu was no longer being supported. At this point, I had moved
onto administrative work in early education and wasn’t staying as up to
date as I would have liked. My last night in Prague, I was talking to
someone about why I was there, what I found interesting and what could be
added to not only get myself more interested, but my son as well. As I
looked at my son, who was the youngest attendee of the summit, I thought of
all the wonderful sessions I had heard while there. I thought it would be
great if someone could talk about how education was being impacted by
Ubuntu. I told my husband about it, and the project took off from there.

I currently work at a nonprofit that helps refugees and immigrants from
Africa. Most of the assistance that they get is free and I thought that
Edubuntu would be a wonderful addition to our classrooms. However, not only
would it be great in our classrooms, but every classroom. My husband and I
began organizing Edubuntu into not only grade levels, but subjects to make
it easy to navigate.
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Features

By default, Edubuntu’s application overview is alphabetized, which makes it
a learning tool out-of-the-box so students can see an example of
alphabetization and cataloging. Additionally, educational applications are
grouped into folders by subject, making the application overview easy to
navigate.

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Using Edubuntu Installer, you can configure the system for a certain age
group, whether that be Preschool, Primary (Elementary), Secondary
(Middle/High School), or Tertiary (College/University). Each configuration
comes with a different set of applications and a different layout and
default wallpaper.

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Using Edubuntu Menu Administrator, administrators can configure which
applications are hidden for non-administrator users with the check of a
box. This then makes it easy to add non-admin users that are then
restricted on which applications they are allowed to see. Some recommended
items are pre-selected.

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We hope that Edubuntu will help inspire learners from every age group and
make quality learning available for anyone, anywhere. If you are a teacher,
parent or student that is passionate about learning, then Edubuntu is for
you.
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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.
   - GNOME Notes has a search provider for the Activities Overview which
   will sometimes crash <https://launchpad.net/bugs/2012985>.
   - Calibre has an issue where lrfviewer is crashing upon launch
   <https://launchpad.net/bugs/2016369>.
   - 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.

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Downloads

Images may be downloaded from
https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/23.04/release.
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How To Contact

Edubuntu Users Mailing List
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users> (Support
Discussion)
Edubuntu Developers Mailing List
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel> (Join The Team!)

Social Media

Twitter <https://twitter.com/edubuntuproject>
Mastodon <https://ubuntu.social/@edubuntu>
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Special Thanks

Huge thanks for this release go to:

   - Aaron Prisk: Creating Temporary Website
   - Steve Langasek: Technical Guidance, Release Team and Technical Board
   Point-Person
   - Ubuntu Community Council: Giving us the permissions to start working
   on this
   - Stephane Graber and Jonathan Carter: Predecessors, handing us the
   reigns
   - Oliver Grawert: Project Founder, encouragement
   - Aaron Rainbolt and Joshua Peisach: Testing
   - Erich Eickmeyer: Technical Leader
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