The Edubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.10 of the Education variant of the Ubuntu family of distributions.
Edubuntu 7.10 is based on Ubuntu 7.10, a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent applications included, and an incredible variety of add-on software available with a few clicks. Edubuntu also bundles selected Education desktop applications, as well as the latest the latest in LTSP thin client technology, allowing for an easy install and set-up of a thin client network. For feature highlights of Edubuntu 7.10, read our full announcement at: http://www.edubuntu.org/news/7.10-release Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/support The Ubuntu 7.10 family will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers. Users requiring a longer support lifetime on servers may choose to continue using Edubuntu 6.06 LTS, with security support until 2011, rather than upgrade to or install 7.10. Read more in the following press releases: Ubuntu 7.10 http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu710 Desktop edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-desktop710 Server edition http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-server710 Ubuntu family http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-family710 To Get Edubuntu 7.10 -------------------- To download Edubuntu 7.10 visit: http://www.edubuntu.org/Download To obtain CDs visit: https://shipit.edubuntu.org/ Users of Edubuntu 7.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 7.10 via Update Manager. As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. For further information about upgrading, see http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading We recommend that all users read the release notes, which will document any caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at: Edubuntu release notes: http://www.edubuntu.org/ReleaseNotes/7.10 Ubuntu release notes: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710 Find out what's new in this release with a graphical tour: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710tour If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren't sure, try asking on the #edubuntu IRC channel, on the Edubuntu Developers or Edubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums: #edubuntu on irc.freenode.net http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel Helping Shape Ubuntu -------------------- If you would like to help shape Edubuntu and the Ubuntu, family of software, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://www.edubuntu.org/Community http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/ Developers should consider attending the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) starting 29 October. More information is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Boston More Information ---------------- You can find out more about Edubuntu and Ubuntu and about this release on our websites: http://www.edubuntu.org/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce -- Richard Weideman +27 (83) 321-2233 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ubuntu Education Programme Manager http://www.edubuntu.org http://www.ubuntu.com #ubuntu-education -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
