 Today I'm excited to take a look at a Linux distribution that I've never actually taken a look at on camera. And the reason I haven't taken a look at it on camera before is in the six years of my YouTube channel this distribution actually was dormant for that entire length of time until just recently. And the distribution I'm talking about is Ed Ubuntu. Now Ed Ubuntu was one of the original flavors of Ubuntu. It saw its initial release similar to Ubuntu started I think late 2004. Ed Ubuntu started sometime in 2005. And it was one of the main flavors of Ubuntu for many of the early years that I was a desktop Linux user. I'd actually tried some of those older versions of Ed Ubuntu back in the day. It used the GNOME desktop environment and its earlier versions. And then once Ubuntu moved from GNOME 2 to Unity, Ed Ubuntu also used the old Unity desktop environment. But then Ed Ubuntu in 2014 put out their last release. And in the last nine years Ed Ubuntu pretty much ceased to exist. Except for 2304 this recent cycle of Ubuntu releases saw the rebirth of Ed Ubuntu. It uses now the GNOME desktop environment. And I'm excited to take a look at this reborn Ed Ubuntu. And before I actually take a look at the distribution itself I do want to mention the website here edubuntu.org. There's actually not much information here on this website. Really it's just this home page here that gives you some blurbs you know some some sound bites essentially. You can see that Ed Ubuntu if you didn't guess by the name is a stable secure and privacy conscious option for school. So it's a Linux distribution designed for the classroom you can see has a huge ecosystem of software being Ubuntu based of course you would expect that and of course it's free and open source software. And it's got a mission statement and a link to how you can contribute. And then not much else it's got the download button. I've gone ahead I've downloaded the ISO and I'm going to spin up a quick virtual machine I'm going to run through an installation and do a quick first look of Ed Ubuntu 23.04. So I've created this virtual machine I gave this VM 6 gigs of RAM I gave it two threads of my 24 thread CPU so I'm going to go ahead and choose try or install Ed Ubuntu here from the boot menu. And I really like the the splash screen and the logo it's kind of a slightly modified Ubuntu logo instead of having the the three circles kind of like three people holding hands like one of them was throwing their hand up maybe for a high five I don't know but that was a really cool logo. And it boots us directly into a live environment where the Ubiquiti installer launches so they're still using the older Ubuntu's Ubiquiti installer of course you guys know the recent mainline version of Ubuntu moved to a new installer that is based on Flutter but this is still using Ubiquiti it looks like so I'm going to go ahead and install Ed Ubuntu and the language English US is the default and that is correct for me so I'm just going to click continue here and then normal installation or minimal installation I'll use the normal installation download updates while installing Ed Ubuntu that is ticked on by default which is good install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi drivers let's tick that on especially if you're installing this on physical hardware especially a laptop you're really are going to want those third-party drivers especially for Wi-Fi and if you have an Nvidia card you definitely want the third-party drivers for your graphics card and then click continue then we come to the partitioning we can erase the disk and give Ed Ubuntu the entire disk which is what I'm going to choose or you can choose something else and manually partitions the drives yourself that's what you want to do I'm going to go ahead and click install now and it's going to warn me that it's about to format the drive and right to the disk I'm going to click continue and it's going to ask about my time zone it is correctly chosen the central time zone in the US for me so I'm just going to click continue then we need to create our username I'm going to call my user dt the computer host name I'm going to call this Ed Ubuntu-vert just so it's descriptive I'll know it's my Ed Ubuntu virtual machine in case I ever ssh into this VM for some reason then we need to create a strong and complicated password for the dt user and then repeat the strong and complicated password and then login automatically is ticked off I'm going to leave that ticked off I want to have to enter a password to get into my computers for privacy reasons you should always have to enter a password to get into a computer so require my password to log in I'll leave that and then use active directory I'll leave that ticked off and then I'm just going to click continue and now we're going to get a slideshow and this portion of the installation typically takes about five to ten minutes on my hardware so I'm going to step away grab me a cup of coffee I'll be back once the installation has completed and the installation has completed that took about 15 minutes or so so a little longer to install than like mainline Ubuntu but that is kind of to be expected really for a couple of reasons mainline Ubuntu is a very minimal installation it doesn't install a lot of software if you ever installed Ubuntu on any machine you know it installs the basic programs you need to just get started at Ubuntu is going to install a lot more software because it's for schools it's for education it's going to install a full office suite and a lot of graphics programs a lot of science programs math programs games trivia you know a lot of stuff was installed and plus I also ticked on the box that said update while installing so there were probably some updates as well so now I'm going to click restart now and let's check out the freshly installed it ubuntu 2304 and we come to our log in manager and of course this is gdm which is gnomes log in manager so let's go ahead and log in and I've logged in for the very first time and much like mainline ubuntu when you log in for the very first time you have the option to connect your online account your google or next cloud or microsoft accounts and I could especially see being able to connect to like your next cloud account or your google account is for gmail or google docs or whatever it happens to be I could understand why this would be very important for ed ubuntu to have this in it I'm going to skip all that for now would we like to send information to canonical so this is like crash reports and telemetry to help them improve the distribution yes since they asked me nicely I will leave that ticked on and then privacy it's location services that's turned off for educational purposes since you're putting this on classroom machines I probably would leave that turned off in a school environment and then you're ready to go it tells you some of the software that is available in the ubuntu software center but I don't know what is installed out of the box so I'm not going to go immediately to the software center and start installing stuff let's see what is already here so let me go ahead and go back into the menu system here and actually just take a look because obviously we have a lot of the standard programs you would expect to be here but then we have these subcategories that you normally don't have on a Linux distribution such as the art category which is a lot of graphics software so you actually have a good new image manipulation program of course that's the gimp gimp is for raster graphics and then you have inkscape for scalable vector graphics you have tux paint which is a nice little painting tool you have librae cad for a cad program as well so there is actually a lot of stuff here let me go ahead and open tux paint it's a program I don't get to play with that often I do like the little music in the place when you open it yeah and let's draw something now my artistic skills are not great and I change the shape what is that oh sure all right yeah I don't know too much about tux paint so I'm going to go ahead and close this yes I'm done yes save it no don't bother saving it yeah I don't think I need to save that one so a lot of graphics program here in ed ubuntu we also had ed ubuntu info and administration now this is very important because well we have a link to ask ubuntu if we need support questions about the linux distribution itself but we also have ed ubuntu menu administration and what this is if I click on it it's listing all the dot desktop files so these are the programs that are desktop applications because there are desktop applications they should appear in your menu systems your standard menu systems well what you could do especially since this is for kids in a classroom you could actually choose to show these or not to show these so select applications to hide for any non administrator user so unless you have sudo privileges or root privileges you don't actually get to see these so like ask ubuntu that normally would not show up now I do have sudo privileges my dt user so I got to see that but if somebody had to log in under a non administrative account like a guest account or something they would not be able to see that ask ubuntu desktop entry here if I go back into the menu system they would not see that so that is very cool that is actually really powerful that they have some of this stuff like the system monitoring and they probably have a lot of the dangerous stuff like the disk utility gnome disk which could partition a drive the kids that are going to use this distribution they obviously don't need access to that they don't need access to the terminal because again they could really destroy the machine if they entered the wrong command so that is a really nice touch going back into the menu system some of the programs that jump out to me endeavor which I believe is a note taking program let's see task will appear today so this is like a scheduler okay it's a scheduling program an organizer essentially endeavor 43 so that obviously would be very useful in a classroom setting let's get back into the menu system and we have a game section and these aren't games necessarily just for fun a lot of these are probably educational kind of games so we have blinkin is made by kde see the kde logo here let's see uh is it some kind of memory game let's see let's do level one okay I guess it just shows us a color and then we got to pick the color yeah I don't know I'm probably going to be really bad at that game but that is what a lot of these educational games are especially for younger children it's all about memory retention and being able to I didn't mean to launch that game again it's all it's all about working on the memory right can you remember what you were just shown this is jigsaw which I've never actually heard of this game this space brings bottom pieces to the front click or press enter sure why not so it's another memory game right it's going to show us some pictures I'm assuming and then I've got to put the picture back together all right uh that's not where that goes that's where that goes oh my goodness I did not expect to play games today when I decided to do this video oh I'm getting pretty close though not bad I'm much better at this game than I was at the previous one yeah as you can see for young children this would be very appropriate now obviously edamoon too is actually designed for children of all ages from very young you know kindergarten or in like preschool level all the way to you know teenagers you know high schoolers because obviously things like gimp and eat inkscape library office you know that's going to be uh-oh mainly for older children right young children are probably not going to be creating scalable vector graphics images inside inkscape although that would be fantastic if they did another educational tool we have here is gbrainy gbrainy is an old school Linux program it's been around for many many years and it's a great educational tool you can see I go to help about gbrainy 2.4.6 this is a brain teaser game for fun and to keep your brain trained and you have various options on the type of games you can do logic calculation memory verbal let's do verbal which of the following words is closest to the meaning of phlegmatic answer a b c or d so our options for what is most similar to phlegmatic is authentic calm tense or clever I'm going to choose tense that was the incorrect answer b calm was the answer all right I can't go out on a losing effort let's try one more given the relationship between the two words below which word has the same relationship to numismatics the words are pediatrics and children and we have to type the answer children that's over too you know what I'm going to close out gbrainy I'm I'm embarrassing myself back to the menu system another educational tool it's very popular on Linux g compress taking a minute to load so you can tell this is for younger children a really cool game those of you that have small children g compress is a really neat tool do you want to download the following external assets I'm not going to do that on this video but put your favorite activities here by clicking on the sun at the top of the right of that activity let's go to a b c's and you can see baby keyboard a baby word processor draw some letters alphabet sequence so a young kid needed to figure out how to remember the order of their a b c's you can see we're missing some sound files I really can't do anything without downloading the other assets I'm gonna skip all that for now also in the menu we have a submenu for language and learning and some of the programs in there include Calibre Calibre's a standard program on Linux as well that's actually a program I usually install on all of my computers it manages your ebook library like your e-pub files and things like that for those of you that still have like an old school kindle or whatever e-reader you have that'll manage that library for you also under language and learning we have the ebook editor the ebook viewer so you know you need to read those right and then gobby I have never heard of gobby let's see what that is before we start a few options need to be configured so your username your user color remote connections authentication I don't really want to do all of that on camera let's view and will it actually tell me what kind of program this is it says connect to server so it requires internet access so I'm not sure if this is something or educational purposes because obviously in a school setting you probably don't want your kids connecting to certain things on the internet so I'm not sure what gobby is I guess I could look it up really quickly we have firefox as the default web browser on the system as well let's go ahead and launch firefox by double click we'll make it full screen and let's just search for gobby what are the odds that that's actually going to well return hobby lobby that's not what I wanted gobby gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on windows and unix like platforms a real-time editor so I guess it's uh okay like a collaborative tool like if multiple people need to work on a project okay I could see how that would be appropriate for a distribution like edamoon too also in the menu we have library office we have the entire library office suite we have base calc drawl impress math and I'm sure writer is here but it's probably pinned to the dock when you pin something to the dock in gnom it goes out of the menu so there is writer we're probably going to use the spreadsheet enough we could go ahead and try to move it over here if I could drag it but not going to let me yeah I guess it's kind of picky where I put them I can move library office impress over here as well that's the presentation software I use that a lot and personally I'd probably pin it to the dock we have gnom maps we have marble I'm not sure what marble is had a compass on it huh so geography program right you get the globe so makes sense for this sort of distribution to have something like that here we have a mathematics category of course and lots of mathematical programs many of them look like kde programs a lot of them start with a k such as k algebra let's go ahead and launch that and you have the calculator 2d graph 3d graph dictionary if I go to help about k algebra this k algebra version 22 dot 12 dot 3 I'm going to close that out because I'm definitely not going to be doing any algebra on camera we have the science subcategory and several science related tools stellarium is a standard program on Linux for astronomy atomic I'm assuming would be for like your chemical periodic tables and things like that it says guide the atoms through the maze to form molecules it's kind of like a game I was not expecting that see about atomic a puzzle game about atoms and molecules very cool and we also have a social sciences category and that's going to be grants and k geography k geography is pretty obvious what it would be about but what is grants I'm seeing so many cool like educational programs that I've never seen before and this is a family tree program okay that makes sense grants is a software package designed for genealogical research although similar to other genealogical programs grant offers some unique and powerful features I go to help and about this is grants 5 dot 1 dot 5 if I go back to the menu and go to the second page here we do have a technology category as well looks like mostly games for technology stuff k touch I'm assuming that would be for learning to type yeah the typewriter training program very cool let's see what else was in that technology subcategory it talks typing so we got a couple of typing programs and then we have k turtle what is k turtle so it looks like a lot of the educational games especially for smaller children are from the kde suite of software k turtle is an educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easy as possible so it's teaching kids to program nice and that is a quick look at most of the software that is installed on the system everything else that's installed is like your standard gnom stuff the gnom desktop environment which you you guys already know about the file manager and firefox they're using geary for the email client we've got our calendar here as well we've got the gnom calculator which is important on an educational distribution for school you're probably gonna need like the advanced calculator you're gonna need some scientific functions and the good thing about the gnom calculator is it is very full featured it's got everything you could possibly want in a calculator and the other big thing in a classroom setting a lot of times you're gonna need to be taking notes and they do have notes here so i go to about notes this is notes 40 dot one this is the simple notebook for gnom the good thing about notes is you can actually keep multiple notebooks of notes inside notes and you know with email you know you could email each other your own notes or their notes and then with if you're singing to something like next cloud you know just again i'm really impressed with this distribution as far as a complete and total package for the classroom and the fact that you have such fine control over it with the administrative privileges on what appears in the menu system because you can have all these programs installed but they don't necessarily have to be accessible to your students all the time so you can turn on and off for example the web browser do they really need access to the internet most of the time probably not you may want to tick on and off you know allowing them access to firefox for example overall i'm really impressed with edda boon 223.04 it's been nine years since the last release i'm really happy that it has returned and i hope it's here to stay because i do think edda boon two it feels avoid right it serves a real need in the linux community now before i go i need to think a few special people i need to think the producers of this episode gave james maxim my homies michael paul roe west armor dragon bash potato chuck commander ingre george lee marston met those nader yon paul peace archon of door polytech realities for less red profit roland tools deviler willies in a bit these guys they're my house tiered patrons over on patreon 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