GCompris offers 2 new activities: «Programming Maze» and «Baby Tangram», as well as a lot of new features, such as:
• New sub-categories to organize activities.
• New feature in chess activities to display captured pieces.
• New speed setting in several activities («Gletters», «Algebra», «Reading», «Note Names»).
• Add a tutorial to the activity «Even/Odd numbers».
• Add an intro to «Piano Composition».
Version 6.4 has better M$ Office import and export filters, a QR code generator, a new API for the database app, and speed optimizations.
In Escuelas Linux we have always included HotPotatoes, even when we thought it was abandonware after many years without updates. Now enjoy a brilliant new release.
Select the blue icon on the right corner of a video to open a floating window, in order to see it while you continue working in other tabs or apps. Also now you can add a custom default zoom level for all web content.
Now Chrome (64-bit) and Chromium (32-bit) are more secure. Password Checkup is an online service through which Google takes all your Chrome-synced passwords and checks to see if any have leaked via breaches at other online services. Also, when a user visits a site, Chrome(ium) checks the URL against a list of known bad sites.
Escuelas Linux uses Moksha, the DE from Bodhi Linux, the base of our project.
This Moksha version is the first fruit of collaboration between our teams. You will find more stability and more incredible features.
Do you remember that, in order to make permanent some change on a locked Escuelas Linux desktop, you had to switch to a terminal, access it and then type "sudo commit-desktop-changes"?
Now you don't have to do such a complex procedure, at the System menu you'll find "Commit Desktop Changes", a mere single click away to do the same.
Do you need to run some app developed for Windows? Then it might run in Escuelas Linux, thanks to the most recent version of Wine.
You can browse the list of supported apps at https://appdb.winehq.org/
Remember that this update will erase any previous configuration of Wine, so if you made custom changes on it or added other Windows applications, you should backup /home/linux/.wine first.
On the Escuelas Linux ISO image you will find the veyonServer and veyonClient carpets, both contain scripts that will ease the installation process.
Veyon is a useful app for computer classrooms with a local area network, as it lets you, among other features:
• See what’s going on in every student computer.
• Take remote control of the computers to help students.
• See a live demo of the procedures or presentations shown in any of the computers.
• Block one or some computers to attract attention on the teacher.
• Send text messages to the students.
• Shut down all the computers from the server.
Veyon replaces Epoptes, which was available on Escuelas Linux from 5.0 to 5.6. Check our Installation Manual to have more details about Veyon.
Escuelas Linux 6.7 also includes updated versions of Adobe Flash, Zotero, Geogebra, OnlyOffice (on 64-bit), Balena Etcher, Teamviewer and IBM Java.
Optionally, in our 64-bit edition you can install the most recent Linux kernel version to date, as its packages are included on the kernel5.5 carpet in our ISO image.
• On our previous 6.6 version was not possible to open Scribus files from the file manager. Problem fixed.
• On Hot Potatoes you had to select the activities via its menu, because when you tried to put the cursor over a Potato it "ran away". Fixed.
• Robert Wiley (Moksha Lead Developer) discovered that the clipboard app was the source of a frequent segmentation fault, very notorius when a USB stick or hard disk were unmounted, as the graphical interface could restart. Problem fixed.
• On Escuelas Linux was not a very good idea to update some of our packages, via Synaptic or with the "apt-get update"/"apt-get upgrade" commands, because that would mean that something else could stop working fine. Now you can do this kind of updates without any fear of breaking something.
• On the PCmanFM file manager now you can do file searching by merely typing the text string to find, no need to add "*" or "?" symbols.
• Sometimes our own version-to-version Update App would freeze or took a very long time to actually start. Issue fixed.
The Developer Pack is an add-on that can be optionally installed in our distribution. It lets students and teachers to have easy access to apps for learning and development of Java, C, C++ and PHP.
When you install the Escuelas Linux Developer Pack, you don't have to do any complex setup procedures. Here, all the included apps are completely ready to be used.
Developer Pack 2.1 has the following novelties:
• Eclipse is updated to version 2019-12, Android Studio to 3.5.3.
• As we found unworkable the use of Android extensions on NetBeans and Eclipse, we removed them from those apps. Nevertheless, you can continue developing that kind of apps in Android Studio, LiveCode and MIT App Inventor.
• We added the required packages to have a full LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). What's more, you could even setup a local Moodle server, if interested. To have access to more PHP extensions, no problem, download them via Synaptic.
• NetBeans and Eclipse now have the plugins and appropriate configurations to be used also for PHP development, not only Java, C and C++. You even will have a working local web server on each machine, so you can test real web development by putting your files at "/var/www/html/" and viewing them with some navigator at "http://localhost"
• The Developer Pack also includes PseInt, Karel J. Robot Simulator and Sqlite.