Escuelas Linux

More than a month after the start of our brand-new, completely redesigned 8.x series, Escuelas Linux offers its first point update to provide several packages and bug fixes.

We offer the following apps for the 64-bit architecture, listed in alphabetical order:

-Audacity 3.2.5

-Balena Etcher 1.18.4

-Firefox 111

-GIMP 2.10.34

-Google Chrome 111

-eXe Learning 2.8

-Kdenlive 22.12.3

-Krita 5.1.5

-LibreOffice 7.5.1

-Linux Kernel 6.2

-Mixxx 2.3.4

-OBS Studio 29.0.2

-ONLYOFFICE 7.3

-Telegram Desktop 4.6.5

-Wine 8.3

-wxMaxima 23.02.1

-Zoom 5.13.10

-Zotero 6.0.22

For our 32-bit edition, we offer the most recent version of LibreOffice, 7.5.1, compiled and packaged by ourselves since the withdrawal of the LibreOffice Foundation to create 32-bit Linux binaries. eXe Learning 2.8 is also included.

ESCUELAS LINUX DEVELOPER PACK 8.1

Our optional Developer Pack reaches version 8.1, and it includes the following updated apps, all configured and ready to use:

-Android Studio Electric Eel 2022.1.1

-Apache NetBeans 17

-Eclipse IDE 2022-12

-Azul Zulu Java 17

FIXED BUGS

For both 32-bit and 64-bit:

-Solves that the Flash Player Standalone did not launch at all on 64-bit systems or could not launch on certain graphics cards on 32-bit.

-Solves a bug on recent versions of the ibus system, in which its tool to switch keyboard layouts dropped support for the Latin American one.

-Support the exFAT format, which could be available in specific storage devices.

Only for 64-bit:

-Fixes a bug with some graphics cards, in which the Moksha desktop would briefly crash after working with LibreOffice.

-Solves the omission of the software-properties-gtk package. That omission caused "Additional Drivers" and "Software & Updates" in the Preferences menu to not open.

-Fixes that Firefox ESR was appearing in English in our Spanish edition.

-It solves that Scribus did not open from the menu.

-The libcupsimage2 package was added to ease the setup of particular printers. Certain printers did not work without that package; worse yet, the Configure Printer app gives no warning about that situation.

-Fixes an issue where GParted and USB Stick Formatter could not format devices as FAT32.

-Added thumbnails on the File Manager to preview the contents of video files.

-Includes the VirtualBox guest utils, to ease the integration with its 6.1.36 release.

-Fixes a permission issue that prevented Telegram Desktop and Zotero from receiving updates.

Only for 32-bit:

-Fixes the creation of big log files because evbug was active.

-Adds a working default samba configuration.

-We include a modified Telegram Desktop package that displays a QR as an option for its initial configuration.

DOWNLOAD ESCUELAS LINUX!

The award-winning Escuelas Linux 8.1 distribution and the Developer Pack are available for download from:

https://es.osdn.net/projects/escuelaslinux/releases/

Once there, download the .z01 and .zip files for the language you'd like to use (English or Spanish).

HOW TO GENERATE YOUR ISO IMAGE

-On Windows and Escuelas Linux systems, uncompress with the file manager ONLY the .zip file to generate the ISO image.

-On macOS, you should install The Unarchiver app and uncompress ONLY the .z01 file to generate the ISO image.

-On Linux distributions that cannot handle the uncompression of split zip files in their file managers, open a terminal and type the following commands:

cd {path and folder name where the zip and z01 files are} (enter)

zip -s- escuelaslinux*zip -O todo.zip (enter)

unzip todo.zip (enter)

Have old computers between 512 and 700 MB of RAM? Then download Escuelas Linux LowMem, also updated to version 8.1!

UPDATE FROM THE PREVIOUS 8.0 VERSION

You can update Escuelas Linux 8.0 to version 8.1 with the package:

-EscuelasLinux-8.0-to-8.1-32.tar.gz, or

-EscuelasLinux-8.0-to-8.1-64.tar.gz

Download the package suitable for your architecture.

DOCUMENTATION

The Installation Manual is available in English and Spanish languages:

-installationManualEscuelasLinux-osdn-8.1-english.pdf

-manualDeInstalacionEscuelasLinux-osdn-8.1-espanol.pdf