OS4 Education 4.0 Linux Distribution Arises | Linux Today

OS4 Education 4.0 Linux Distribution Arises

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Marius Nestor
Jun 6, 2013

As its name suggests, OS4 Education 4.0 is a Linux distribution targeted at schools and other educational facilities who want to build a reliable and open source computing infrastructure. OS4 Education 4.0 uses the Xfce 4.10 lightweight and fast desktop environment, and includes LibreOffice 4.0, Wine 1.5, Skype, Calibre, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Celestia, Stellarium, Tux Typing, BASIC 256, SmallBASIC, ClamAV, Mono Runtime, as well as support for Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii controllers.

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Marius Nestor

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