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关于 Edubuntu About Edubuntu

原文链接：http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/ch01s01.html

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关于 Edubuntu About Edubuntu

Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on Ubuntu, a complete operating system that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to anyone. As an education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for:

  • An organisation or Education Ministry that is wanting to take full advantage of the benefits that open source software offers to the educational environment.

  • Educators and school personnel who would like to set up Edubuntu in a networked learning environment.

  • Home users who would like to have a standalone computer system that focuses on education for the younger members of the household.

Edubuntu gathers together the best available free software and digital materials for education.

Since Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu, the team behind Edubuntu is part of the growing Ubuntu community. The Ubuntu community is built around the ideals enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy:

  • that software should be available free of charge;

  • that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities;

  • and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

For these reasons, Edubuntu makes the following public commitment to its community of users worldwide:

  • Edubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition;" we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.

  • We include the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer, to make Edubuntu usable for as many people as possible.

  • Releases are regular and predictable; a new one is made every six months. You can use the current stable or the development release. Each release is supported for at least 18 months and selected ones are supported for up to 3 to 5 years on a Long-Term Support (LTS) basis.

  • We are is entirely committed to the principles of open source software development; we encourage people to use open source software, improve it, and pass it on.

Edubuntu is meant for anyone who wants a computer laboratory that makes good use of free software and the widest variety of hardware. It is designed to be easy to administer and is well documented. It can run on inexpensive, 10-year-old IBM-compatible computers as well as brand new I64-based systems. The growing Edubuntu community is working together to share ideas and solutions for bringing computing and communications power to teachers, students and community members everywhere.

One of the key technologies included is the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) which allows you to boot thin clients from an Edubuntu LTSP server. For educational environments, LTSP lowers hardware costs by enabling the use of older or less powerful machines as thin clients, as well as reduced administration overhead by having only to install and maintain the software on the server. When a workstation fails, it can simply be replaced without data loss or reinstallation of the operating system.


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原文链接：http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/ch01s01.html

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关于 Edubuntu About Edubuntu

Edubuntu是一个以教育为主题的操作系统。它基于一个名为Ubuntu，使用Linux内核的免费系统。作为一个教育操作系统，Edubuntu提供了如下解决方案：

  • 使用开源软件为教育环境提供最大优势的组织或者教育部门。

  • 想使用Edubuntu创建网络学习环境的教育者或学校工作者。

  • 致力于使用着重对儿童进行家庭教育的单机环境的家庭用户。

Edubuntu对自由软件和数字教育资源进行了充分的利用。

自Edubuntu从Ubuntu派生以来，开发团队将Edubuntu作为Ubuntu社区的一部分。Ubuntu社区一直饯行这Ubuntu哲学：

  • 软件应该是免费使用的；

  • 软件应该能够对任何使用本地语言的人是可用的；

  • 对使用者应该是可以自由的定制和修改他们的软件，以达到他们认为适合的程度。

由于以上这些原因，Edubuntu对全球用户的社区创建了以下公约：

  • Edubuntu将永远免费，而且对于“企业版”也是没有任何附加费用的，我们将自己优秀的工作成果与每个人在这一约定下共享。

  • 我们的免费软件社区提供包括非常优秀的翻译和可扩展的架构，目的是尽可能使Edubuntu对更多的人可用。

  • 发布是有规律和按照预期的；每六个月就会有新版发布出来。你当然也可以使用最近的稳定版本或者开发版本。每一个发布版本都会最短提供18个月的技术支持，一些特殊的长期支持版本会提供3至5年的长期技术支持。

  • 我们完全坚持开源软件的开发原则；我们鼓励人们使用开源软件，改进它，传递它。

Edubuntu是为任何想使用开源软件和多种硬件建立电脑实验室的人所设计的。它被设计为易于管理和带有完备文档的。它可以运行在廉价的、10年前的IBM兼容机和最新的64为系统上。正在壮大的Edubuntu社区分享观点和解决方案，只为将计算和交流的力量提供给教师、学生和社区成员。

其中最为关键的技术就是Linux终端服务器项目（LTSP），它将使得你可以使用Edubuntu LTSP服务器引导瘦客户端的启动。在教育应用环境中，LTSP的低硬件需求使得一些老旧或功能较弱的机器可以作为瘦客户端，使用服务器安装和维护软件最大可能的降低了管理费用。当一台工作站当机时，可以轻易的被替代而不会造成数据丢失或者重新安装操作系统。


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