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openSUSE-Education in the Press

Articles are listed on this page at the discretion of the openSUSE-Education Project. If you know of any news stories featuring openSUSE Education that we have not listed here, please add them by yourself (it's a wiki) - or send details to mailto:opensuse-edu@opensuse.org so that we can include them.

2009

On heise.de - in German

www.muylinux.com in Spanish

Featured on www.h-online.com

zdnet features Li-f-e release announcement

Feature in Russian

On distrowatch

Release announcement on unixmen.com

softpedia feature

Spotlight on openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e

After testing with the LiveDVD among our team members, it’s hard to say there’s a better GNU/Linux offering for the school market than this.

openSUSE-Edu review

Lisa Hoover checks out Li-f-e DVD.

Li-f-e at LinuxTag

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols looks at two education related Linux announcements, Sugar and openSUSE Edu Li-f-e.

openSUSE-Edu-KIWI-LTSP Live DVD review

David Van Assche takes a dive into opensuse-edu-kiwi-ltsp live DVD and comes out very impressed. "All in all, I was quite impressed with Opensuse[sic] and the wide variety of services it can run, be it as a fileserver, ltsp server, ldap server, or desktop machine. The educational software collection is impressive...

Is Linux only for the poor?

Author Christopher Dawson talks about the openSUSE-Education project as a great example for the incredible value in the open source community.

Greetings to Leslie Hawthorn

Leslie Hawthorn, manager of the Google Summer of Code program and the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series, excuses not participating on our last Meeting. No problem, Leslie, we have more meetings - definitely. :-)

SuSE in LPAR on as400 featuring openSIS

openSIS starts a proof of concept, including openSIS and many of the other packages offered in the openSUSE for Education project, of a Linux server on an IBM iSeries computer using a SUSE LPAR to demonstrate the viability of openSIS and openSUSE on the iSeries platform.

openSUSE KIWI-LTSP on OSnews

Author Nik Tripp elaborates about the advantages of thin clients using Kiwi-LTSP server.

Baroda High School familiarize their teachers to openSUSE-Education

Some of you might have read the news that Gujarat Education Board has included Linux and Open Source Software in their curriculum for 11th and 12th standard from this year. Baroda High School, a group of 4 schools has taken an initiative to familiarize their teachers to Linux, we are conducting a workshop for them.

openSUSE-Education participates on FOSDEM 2009

The openSUSE-Education project has a great success with it's own demo workstation at the openSUSE booth and presentation on FOSDEM 2009.

HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project

HP expands choice for business and education customers with Linux offering. Based on openSUSE-Education.

2008

Live-CD, CD-Cover and 1.0 Beta2 for openSUSE 11.1

• We are proud to announce the first openSUSE-Education Live-CD
• Our new artist Aishwarya Raja designs a first draft for our new CD Cover.
• Beta2 of openSUSE-Education 1.0 for 11.1 released

KIWI-LTSP at the Brindisi’s Linux-Day (Italy)

The BriLUG - Brindisi Linux User Group - presented openSUSE-Education and KIWI-LTSP to teachers and schools representatives.

openSUSE-Education 1.0 for 11.0 is Ready

• Better LTSP integration
• Direct integration into the community repositories
• Separate online update repository
• Many package updates and new applications (the repository contains >1300 packages now!)

Announcing openSUSE-Education for 10.3

We’ve currently 3.7GB (!) of software on the Education DVD (2,4GB for each arch) - a huge progress compared to 10.2 with ~1,2GB for each architecture. To give new users a hint how to install the DVD, we’ve created PDFs in english, german and italian language containing all needed information and in addition some descriptions for LTSP, GCompris, iTalc and Tuxpaint.

Linkat presented at FOSDEM2008

Linkat - a SUSE Linux based distribution for the schools, community and services around it - had the opportunity to present Linkat to the public at opensuse dev-room at FOSDEM 2008.

2007

openSUSE-Education 1.0 is golden for 10.2!

We're proud to release the first Add-on Media of the openSUSE Community: nearly 3.8 GB software for Education!

New OpenSUSE education apps available

The openSUSE-Education project has been featured in this ZDNet.com blog.

openSUSE Education: First Milestones Reached!

• First online repositories for 10.2 and 10.3 containing tons of software available.
• Well structured wiki pages and communication plattforms should help new users to get a fast overview.

openSUSE to compete with Edubuntu?

Christopher Dawson, the technology director for the Athol-Royalston School District in northern Massachusetts, compares openSUSE-Education with Edubuntu.