Hello fellow educators and students! We’ve updated Edubuntu with a new wallpaper and added some security features in-line with Ubuntu desktop. We are excited for these small, but mighty changes to help you get the most out of Edubuntu.
Desktop (amd64) and Raspberry Pi 5 (arm64+raspi) Images may be downloaded from https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/24.10/release.
Where’s the website?
Our website is currently a placeholder website available at https://edubuntu.org courtesy of @aaronprisk, and we are still working with Canonical IS or others to establish a more permanent website where we can make these posts and more, including administration instructions and other documentation. We do apologize that it is taking so long.
New Features
- We have changed our default wallpaper for this and the next two releases. This will distinguish these releases for this LTS cycle until the next LTS.
- This release includes GNOME 47.
- Like Ubuntu Desktop, Edubuntu now includes the Permissions Prompting and the Security Center as outlined in @local-optimum 's post .
This release is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. We didn’t have much time this cycle to work through our applications and determine which applications are out there to add new ones, so there’s not much new in terms of new applications this cycle.
Known Issues
- We are sad to see the removal of gbrainy. Sadly, gbrainy is no longer developed and is no longer compatible with the build system and was removed from both Debian and Ubuntu.
- Upon first boot, the system will reboot. This is normal, and is the mechanism to set the logo for the login screen.
- KDE/Qt apps use a blue accent color as opposed to a red accent color or whatever accent color is set by the user in the System Settings. There is no known fix currently, however future releases may have other configurations which allow this. There are ongoing discussions that seem to have come to a halt.
- GNOME Notes has a search provider for the Activities Overview which will sometimes crash.
- The new Ubuntu welcome app branding does not match Edubuntu. We’re working on ways to resolve this, and next cycle it looks like we’ll likely have a fluter-based welcome application to replace
gnome-initial-setup. - On the Raspberry Pi, the first login will have the Ubuntu logo as opposed to the Edubuntu logo.
- As Edubuntu shares a desktop with and is based on Ubuntu Desktop, any known issues can be found in the official Ubuntu Release Notes .
- Individual applications included with Edubuntu may have their own known issues. Please consult upstream release notes for those applications before filing bug reports.
How To Contact
Edubuntu Users Mailing List (Support Discussion)
Edubuntu Developers Mailing List (Join The Team!)
Edubuntu Matrix Chat (Talk all things Edubuntu - English Only)
Social Media
We Have a Merchandise Shop!
Buy a t-shirt, coffee mug, hat, teddy bear, or anything available! Browse and find something you like! Commissions support ongoing development!
Special Thanks
Huge thanks for this release go to:
- Aaron Prisk (@aaronprisk): Temporary Website, Website Maintenance
- Steve Langasek (@vorlon) : Technical Guidance, Release Team
- Jeremy Bicha (@jbicha): GNOME Desktop Guidance
- Oliver Grawert (@ogra): Project Founder, encouragement
- Cristian Delgado : Spanish Translations for Application Overview
- Jonny Eickmeyer: Testing/Child’s Perspective/Advice
- Erich Eickmeyer (@eeickmeyer) : Technical Leader, Merch Store
- Amy Eickmeyer (@amypenguin) : Project Leader