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We are pleased to announce the latest release of Edubuntu 23.10 codename
Manic Minotaur. Edubuntu has really been received with open arms and we
are excited to have this available once again. It’s been a labor of
love, and we would especially like to thank Aaron Prisk for helping with
our website.
We’ve also received some help from a special guy of ours, Jonny
Eickmeyer. Jonny is our son and has been a great “Guinea Pig” regarding
testing out games and learning apps in Edubuntu. His feedback and
contribution to the project has been invaluable in shaping it into what
young users are looking for.
We hope you enjoy this latest version of Edubuntu as much as we enjoyed
working on it.
This release will be supported for nine months (Until July 2024).
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*Downloads*
Images may be downloaded
fromhttps://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/23.10/release<https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/23.10/release>.
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*What’s New (Compared to 23.04)*
This release is meant to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. We are
still working out which applications and features work best in the
overall educational ecosystem. As always, feedback is appreciated.
*New Apps*
* *Startup Disk Creator*: This will help users and administrators make
an easy USB drive from a .iso image of any Ubuntu flavor.
* *GNOME Videos*: Video player
* *GNOME Music*: Music player
* *Backup*: Backup utility
* *Basic256*: Teaches students the BASIC programming language
(@eeickmeyer <https://discourse.ubuntu.com/u/eeickmeyer>, our
technical lead, first learned to program in this language when he
was 10 years old on a Commodore VIC-20!)
* *Extension Manager*: An easy way to add and administer GNOME Shell
extensions.
* *OpenBoard*: A whiteboard application for teachers
* *Mnemosyne*: A flashcard application
* *Convertall*: A powerful standalone unit converter (Bonus: GNOME
Shell can also convert units, just ask it!)
OnBoard
OpenBoard
*Bugfixes*
* *Edubuntu Menu Administratior*can now hide snaps
* KDE/Qt apps now respect dark/light settings of the desktop. However,
they still only use a blue accent color. Theongoing discussions
<https://invent.kde.org/teams/vdg/issues/-/issues/26>on how to solve
this previously mentioned in theEdubuntu 23.04 Beta Known Issues
<https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/edubuntu-23-04-beta-released/34861>have
stalled.
*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.
There is no known fix currently, however future releases may have
other configurations which allow this. There areongoing
discussions<https://invent.kde.org/teams/vdg/issues/-/issues/26>that
seem to have come to a halt.
* The system installer (Ubiquity) provides a minimal install option
that is currently work-in-progress.
* GNOME Notes has a search provider for the Activities Overview which
willsometimes crash <https://launchpad.net/bugs/2012985>.
* As Edubuntu shares a desktop with and is based on Ubuntu Desktop,
any known issues can be found in the officialUbuntu Release
Notes<https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mantic-minotaur-release-notes/>.
* 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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*Future Goals*
At this time, we were focusing less on the client-server model of old.
While centralized management for multi-computer environments and large
organizations certainly is a distant goal, it isn’t as immediate as
getting this into the hands of individuals and small organizations.
In the next release cycle, we hope to start working on Raspberry Pi
images. A donor has been kind enough to donate the Edubuntu project a
Rapberry Pi 5 in order to accomplish this goal so that we can start
testing any images we produce. This is also being done with the help of
certain team members at Canonical. (Note that Edubuntu is not a direct
project of Canonical).
Another goal will be to implement a new system installer: the same one
that is currently used by Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Budgie. It is a
Flutter GUI wrapper for subiquity which is the same installer used to
install Ubuntu Server. By combining these efforts, we hope to help
sunset the old Python-based Ubiquity installer so that we can continue
forward with the rest of the Ubuntu community.
We have two other goals to implement in the next cycle that will be of
major interest to students and teachers alike:
* We want to create a teacher-centered metapackage to provide teachers
with the tools they need to effectively instruct and create
assignments for their students. At least one of these applications
is included in the form of OpenBoard, but many more tools are out there.
* Partnering with Ubuntu Studio, we want to create a Music Education
metapackage, consisting of many tools already existing in Ubuntu
Studio but also found in the Ubuntu repositories.
We realize these are big goals just before our first long-term support
(LTS) release in 10 years (!), but we knew this would be the case when
bringing this project back from its nine-year hiatus. That said, we are
excited to make our next release of Edubuntu an LTS release, which we
plan to support for 3 years.
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*How To Contact or Participate*
*Mailing Lists*
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>
*We Have a Merchandise Shop!1 <https://edubuntu.myspreadshop.com/>*
Buy a t-shirt, coffee mug, hat, teddy bear, or anything available!
Browse and find something you like! Commissions support ongoing development!
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*Special Thanks*
Huge thanks for this release go to:
* *Aaron Prisk*: Temporary Website, Website Maintenance
* *Steve Langasek*: Technical Guidance, Release Team
* *Jeremy Bicha*: GNOME Desktop Guidance
* *Oliver Grawert*: Project Founder, encouragement
* *Jonny Eickmeyer*: Testing/Child’s Perspective/Advice
* *Erich Eickmeyer*: Technical Leader, Merch Store
* *Amy Eickmeyer*: Project Leader
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