Jitsi Meet has been our videoconferencing choice for years, so we are proud to promote its use by including its Desktop app, so you can either use the app or head to https://meet.jit.si/. Either way, you will have a great open source tool at your hands, really useful in these pandemic times.
Still using legacy Digital Learning Objects that were created on Flash? Worry not, as Escuelas Linux still supports them. You can open a .swf file with the included standalone Flash Player, or fire up Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) to use them if they’re online.
This video editor now has new video decoders, bug fixes for its Demuxer module, and support for the HE-AAC, HE-AACv2 profiles, as well as the use of external audio tracks in DTS format.
Our recommended tool to put our ISO images into USB sticks has a revamped interface, a more streamlined process and lots of bug fixes.
It brings native support for virtual reality. It is now possible to view your scene directly inside Blender using a VR headset, how cool is that?
Also, now you can import data in the industry-standard OpenVDB format, and enjoy a new sculpting brush, face sets, and a major update of Grease Pencil, its 2D animation toolset.
This popular web browser Chrome already supported tab groups, but with this release you can now collapse and expand them. As for Chromium 84 (hence, also Chrome 85), it introduced intrusive notification request blocking.
Firefox includes in this version a new add-ons blocklist. Mozilla maintains a list of problematic browser extensions, e.g. malicious or privacy-invading ones, and blocks them from being run.
This math app features intersect working for 3D Curves, as well as improvements for pasting LaTeX into the Algebra Input and Input Boxes.
“The biggest kernel of all time”, as Linus Torvalds dubbed it, can be optionally installed on 64-bit Escuelas Linux. If you need it, merely put your USB stick, open Terminology and type:
cd /media/EscuelasLinux/kernel5.8 [enter]
sudo bash ./install [enter]
{your password} [enter]
Over 2,000 changes in this drawing app since Krita 4.2.9, and it also has a lot of novelties on its animation tools, its Filters and better general performance, making a very worthwhile update.
The new generation of the open source office suite is providing significant new features: support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3; Skia graphics engine and GPU-based acceleration for better performance; carefully improved compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files, among many other features.
As this is a major new release, your list of recently opened documents is not going to appear. Don’t worry! All your files will be where you save them.
A better way to build worlds, as this game features dozens of improvements and bug fixes.
Our desktop interface, courtesy of Bodhi Linux, has some bugs fixed, and we also added its updated themes to beautify its look and feel.
The new version of this office suite supports Private Rooms for secure document management and collaboration in real time, as well as Document comparison and the ability to create different forms with input fields that can be filled in by other users, both features can be used if you have bought a cloud or Document server online version.
Beware to not save a file in an OpenDocument Format if you had inserted equations, as they would be lost here, though.
Do you need to do remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers? then the latest version of Teamviewer may be more than suitable for teachers as well as for students in these times.
Our default terminal app has several improvements and security fixes.
Use your Escuelas Linux computer to access all the features available on the Android or iOS Telegram app.
If you previously installed this classroom management app, our 6.9 to 6.10 update package will put the most recent version for you. If you need to install it for the first time, remember that the procedure to do it in Escuelas Linux is explained in our Installation Manual.
The math assistant now features a revamped, elegant and full-featured IDE, we think you are going to love it!
The leading tool that helps you to collect, manage, and cite your references has been updated, so you can now attach PDFs, notes, and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies in a very robust way.
• It’s now possible to open Inkscape and Avidemux projects from the File Manager.
• On some circumstances our app to upgrade Escuelas Linux would get stuck, even when internally it had successfully finished. Bug fixed.
• We renamed one of our Escuelas Linux editions from “Legacy” to “LowMem”. As we use the word “Legacy” in our Install Manual to refer to any computer that is not UEFI based, it created some confusion as to which Escuelas Linux edition would be suitable to download for older, non-UEFI computers.
• Our Installation Manual has been redesigned one more time, and now it offers even better explanations and a more logical structure of its contents.
• On Windows and Escuelas Linux systems, uncompress with the file manager ONLY the .zip file to generate the ISO image.
• On MacOs install the Unarchiver app, and uncompress ONLY the .z01 file to generate the ISO image.
• On Linux distributions that cannot handle the uncompression of splitted zip files in their own file manager, open a terminal and type the following commands:
cd {path and folder name where the zip and z01 files are located} [enter]
zip -s escuelaslinux*zip -O todo.zip [enter]
unzip todo.zip [enter]
If you have computers between 512 and 700 MB of RAM, then download Escuelas Linux 6.10 LowMem, from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/escuelaslinux/files/lowMem/
Escuelas Linux 6.9 can be updated to version 6.10 with the following package:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/escuelaslinux/files/actualiza-update/6.9-to-6.10/
The Installation Manual can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/escuelaslinux/files/installationManualEscuelasLinux-6.10-english.pdf/download
You can try Escuelas Linux before downloading, by using DistroTest services:
https://distrotest.net/Escuelas%20Linux