LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to draw the user interface, also called Greeters . It also supports Wayland .
8-546: LightDM is the default display manager for Edubuntu , Xubuntu and Mythbuntu since the 11.10 release, for Lubuntu since the 12.04 release until 16.10, for Kubuntu beginning with 12.10 until 15.04 for Linux Mint and Antergos . Features include: LightDM has a simpler code base than GDM and does not load any GNOME libraries to work, but at the cost of some features that the user may or may not need. github .com /JezerM /web-greeter Edubuntu Edubuntu , previously known as Ubuntu Education Edition ,
16-508: A classroom setting. Equally important was the gathering together of the best available free software and digital materials for education. According to a statement of goals on the official Edubuntu website: "Our aim is to put together a system that contains all the best free software available in education and make it easy to install and maintain." It also aimed to allow low-income environments to maximize utilisation of their available (older) equipment. The first Edubuntu release coincided with
24-407: Is also installable via a selection of "edubuntu" packages for all distributions using the official Ubuntu repositories ( Ubuntu and Kubuntu mainly). Since 14.04, Edubuntu became LTS -only; Edubuntu announced that they would skip the 16.04 LTS update and that they planned on staying with 14.04 due to lack of contributors. It would then be discontinued for a number of years, but as of April 2023,
32-555: Is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system designed for use in classrooms inside schools , homes and communities . Edubuntu is developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists in several countries. Edubuntu is built on top of the Ubuntu base, incorporates the LTSP thin client architecture and several education-specific applications, and is aimed at users aged 6 to 18. It
40-498: Is only available as a download in a DVD format . In 23.04, Edubuntu's default GUI is GNOME . From 12.04 to 14.04, Edubuntu's default GUI was Unity ; however GNOME , which had previously been the default, was also available. Since release 7.10, KDE is also available as Edubuntu KDE. In 2010, Edubuntu and the Qimo 4 Kids project were working on providing Qimo within Edubuntu, but this
48-402: The release of Ubuntu 5.10, which was codenamed Breezy Badger on 2005-10-13. With the 8.04 Hardy Heron release of Edubuntu it was given the name of Ubuntu Education Edition and was changed to be an add-on to a standard Ubuntu installation instead of being an installable Live CD . From version 9.10 onwards, Edubuntu changed to be available as a full system DVD instead of an Add-on CD. Edubuntu
56-518: Was designed for easy installation and ongoing system maintenance. Included with Edubuntu is the Linux Terminal Server Project and many applications relevant to education including GCompris , KDE Education Suite , Sabayon Profile Manager, Pessulus Lockdown Editor, Edubuntu Menueditor, LibreOffice , Gnome Nanny and iTALC . Edubuntu CDs were previously available free of charge through their Shipit service; since version 8.10 (2008) it
64-444: Was not done as it would not have fit on a CD. The primary goal of Edubuntu was to enable an educator with limited technical knowledge and skills to set up a computer lab or an online learning environment in an hour or less and then effectively administer that environment. The principal design goals of Edubuntu were centralized management of configuration, users and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in
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