Improved hardware support, speed and custom features. Meet Escuelas Linux 8.10

The Escuelas Linux team is proud to announce the release of Escuelas Linux 8.10, the educational distribution. Whether you're a student, teacher, or simply looking for a user-friendly Linux distribution, Escuelas Linux 8.10 is definitely worth checking out because of our Key Features:

• Escuelas Linux 8.10 is built on top of Bodhi Linux providing a solid foundation for both the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions.
• We use a customized Moksha desktop environment, tailored to meet the needs of students and teachers.
• Escuelas Linux comes with a wide range of educational software, including GCompris, GeoGebra, and WxMaxima.
• Escuelas Linux also includes general-use software, such as LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, Mozilla Firefox, GIMP and Kdenlive.
• We have improved hardware support, as our 64-bit edition includes updated hardware drivers, ensuring better support for modern computers, and our 32-bit edition features great support for old computers.

UPDATED PACKAGES

For the 64-bit architecture

• Audacity 3.7
  An updated version of the popular audio editor.

• BalenaEtcher 1.19.25
  Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives, safely and easily.

• Blender 3.6.18
  3D and 2D creation suite.

• Ephoto 1.6
  A full featured image viewer.

• Google Chrome 131
  Browse the web with one of the industry standards.

• Inkscape 1.4
  One of the best vector-based drawing programs.

• Kdenlive 24.08.3
  Create and enjoy your video projects.

• Krita 5.2.6
  Digital painting with creative freedom.

• ONLYOFFICE 8.2.1
  A powerful office suite to serve word processing, spreadsheet and presentation needs.

• OpenBoard 1.7.2
  An open source interactive whiteboard.

• Scribus 1.6.2
  Desktop publishing at your fingertips.

• Xournal++ 1.2.4
  Create and edit PDF files.

For 64-bit and 32-bit architectures

• IBM Java 8.0-8.35
  You can count on the latest version of a solid and stable platform to run Java apps.

• GCompris 4.2
  Te best educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10.

• LibreOffice 24.8.3
  One of the most popular free office suites offers a host of improvements and bug fixes.

• Moksha 0.41-17
  The desktop developed by the Bodhi Linux team desktop has numerous new goodies!

• Mozilla Firefox 133
  Have a better web browsing experience.

• Wine 9.22
  Run a lot of Windows-based apps.

• WxMaxima 24.11.0
  Powerful math wizard.

For the 32-bit architecture

• Chromium 130
  Get a recent version of one of the best open source web browsers.

ESCUELAS LINUX DEVELOPER PACK 8.10

This optional package includes the following leading IDEs for Java, C, C++ and PHP development, all configured and ready to use:

• Android Studio Ladybug 2024.2.1 Patch 3
• Eclipse IDE 2024-12
• Apache Netbeans 23
• A complete and updated LAMP environment to run even a local Moodle installation (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

FIXED BUGS

• CUPS, the modular printing system, had a security issue. Patched.

• Under certain circumstances, a file required to upgrade Mozilla Firefox web browser was missing when using the apt-get upgrade command or when using Synaptic.

• In Escuelas Linux 8.9 the wine-mono package was not really installed, even though it shows as a package included as part of the Wine compatibility layer. Fixed in 8.10, and is not an issue if you have been upgrading since earlier versions of Escuelas Linux.

• In our 32-bit edition Geogebra did not start. Problem solved.

• Starting with version 8.9 we decided to disable the grammar checker in LibreOffice by default as it can cause unexpected crashes on some computers. To use it again, click on Tools → LanguageTool → Options, and in the “General” tab untick on “Disable background-processing check of text”.

NEW FEATURES

Now Escuelas Linux has built-in support to type in Mandarin and Japanese. Consult our Installation Guide to know how to activate both features!

DOWNLOAD ESCUELAS LINUX

The award-winning Escuelas Linux distribution can be downloaded from

https://sourceforge.net/projects/escuelaslinux/files/

Once there, download the .z01 and .zip files for the architecture you'd like to use (64-bit or 32-bit). Both files are required to build the ISO image!

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Note, however, that we received a message from SourceForge claiming that we were using a large amount of disk space, and if we did not select which files to remove, they would remove the files themselves.

In this situation, we made the painful decision to remove the dedicated English-language ISOs that were previously available.

From now on, you will have to install either Escuelas Linux 32-bit or 64-bit using the Spanish language ISOs. Don't forget to select the English language in the menu when opening the installer!

After the installation, download the package escuelasLinux-8.10-english-[32bit]or[64bit].tar.gz, unpack it and in the resulting folder escuelasLinux-8.10-english-[32bit]or[64bit], double-click on the file InstallEscuelasLinux. This will open an application to remove all Spanish language packages and folders, so that your distribution is completely in English.

We sincerely apologize for this additional hurdle.

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HOW TO CREATE YOUR ISO IMAGE

• On Windows and Escuelas Linux systems, use the file manager to unzip ONLY the .zip file to create the ISO image.

• On MacOS, install The Unarchiver application and unzip ONLY the .z01 file to create the ISO image.

• On Linux distributions that cannot handle uncompressing split zip files in their file manager, open a terminal and type the following commands

cd Downloads [enter]
zip -s- escuelaslinux*zip -O todo.zip [enter].
unzip todo.zip [enter]

Do you have old computers with between 512 and 700 MB of RAM? Does our standard 32-bit ISO not install on your old computer? Then download Escuelas Linux LowMem, also updated to version 8.10! (See our Installation Guide.)

UPDATING FROM OUR 8.9 VERSION

You can update Escuelas Linux 8.9 to our latest version, 8.10, for both the 64-bit and 32-bit architectures with the packages:

EscuelasLinux-8.9-to-8.10-64bit.tar.gz
EscuelasLinux-8.9-to-8.10-32bit.tar.gz

Download the package suitable for your architecture.

DOCUMENTATION

The installation guide is available in English and Spanish languages:

installationGuideEscuelasLinux-sourceforge-8.10-english.pdf
guiaDeInstalacionEscuelasLinux-sourceforge-8.10-espanol.pdf