DebianEdu Announced

Bill Kendrick writes "There's been an announcement on debian-devel-announce about a new subproject, DebianEdu, which "aims to make Debian the best distribution available for educational use." As a developer with some stuff in Debian Jr., I'm happy to see some focus on an honest-to-goodness education project!"

good stuff

[Lord Prox]

I work with a local school (Long Beach School for Adults) recycling machines and one of the biggest pains in the butt is having to buy an OS license (redmond tax). This is going to be a big thing for me and I am glad to see an educational directed distro.

Need to outperform closed source options

[jukal]

I would think that not all of the benefits of open source are true in education, as in business use for example. Which means that the open source option needs to outperform the commercial option by other criterias (functionality, performance, feature set, reliability) - not price.

As commercial vendors tend to provide schools and universities with cheap or free licenses for educational uses - to make the students familiar with their products so that they would buy them when they finally graduate and enter work-life. So, am I terribly wrong if I assume that there is not the cost benefit or atleast it is not very significant?

Re:It's about time

[JohnFluxx]

Yeah I grew up on borland compliers.

Debian isn't exactly the first.
kde have had a educational thread for ages, with libraries etc.

A Little Late

[Daemonik]

As a developer with some stuff in Debian Jr., I'm happy to see some focus on an honest-to-goodness education project!

There's at least 2 other Education oriented distributions already. Blue Linux [bluelinux.org] and Seul [seul.org].

K12

[BeowulfSchaeffer]

Ummm, what about K12? http://k12ltsp.org/