14 DAY TRIAL // Softpedia was informed by the developers of the Escuelas Linux distribution about the availability of the Escuelas Linux 5.0 release, a major version that introduces numerous updated components and some new features.
Dubbed Berserker, Escuelas Linux 5.0 is based on the recently released Bodhi Linux 4.0.0 distribution, which, in turn, is based on Canonical's Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system. Being primarily based on Bodhi Linux, Escuelas Linux 5.0 uses the Enlightenment-based Moksha desktop environment as default graphical interface. However, it uses Ubuntu 16.04's long-term supported repositories.
"As always, Escuelas Linux offers an educational all-inclusive experience, in which every app is preconfigured to be at it max potential for its use in schools; it offers a lot of educational and general use programs that let teachers and students to have learning experiences in a whole new level; it offers exclusive apps to ease the administration of our system in public environments," reads the announcement.
Here's what's new in Escuelas Linux 5.0
As mentioned before, Escuelas Linux 5.0 is a major release that includes numerous updated components and applications, among which we can mention the LibreOffice 5.2.3 office suite, Google Chrome 54.0 and Chromium 53.0 web browsers, LiveCode 8.1.2 rapid application development runtime environment, Kdenlive 16.08.2 video editor, Gcompris 0.61 educational software, and Kompozer 0.8 WYSIWYG HTML and CSS editor.
Escuelas Linux 5.0 also offers a revamped look and feel that is more modern and appealing to newcomers. The distro supports both English and Spanish languages, and it suffers from the same AMD Radeon graphics driver support as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Bodhi Linux 4.0.0, meaning that only a few AMD Radeon graphics cards are supported at the moment. You can download Escuelas Linux 5.0 right now from our website.