openSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system admins of educational institutions may need.

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Softwares for mathematics, chemistry, astronomy etc, servers like KIWI-LTSP, Fedena school ERP, Moodle course management etc., full multimedia, graphics, office suite, many popular programming languages including AMP stack, java, C, C++, python, ruby, latest stable Gnome and KDE desktop environments and lot more is packed in this release. More about softwares included here.

To know more about openSUSE Education project, file bugs, request enhancements, participate, or to get in touch with us visit Education Portal.

Create live USB stick or DVD with this image. About 15GB disk space and 1GB RAM is required for installation, more is better. Please note that we release 32bit image only, for users with RAM 4G or more install and use kernel-pae package.

Happy holidays…

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Direct Download | new metalink | old metalink | md5sum | torrent

Use download manager or Metalink client such as aria2c for most efficient way to download.

Starting with the release of openSUSE 11.3, we changed our own release cycle. We can use the openSUSE-Buildservice now for building not only packages but also a complete Live-Media - so whenever we add a new package to the media or fix something inside a package, the openSUSE-Buildservice automatically starts a new build and finished by upgrading the resulting ISO-Image automatically.

So if you want to help us testing (or just want to use always the latest ISO), just use this URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/

Tested ISO-Images are also placed here: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/

We've decided to start with a new moodle webpage to collect online courses about openSUSE, openSUSE in Education and other interesting stuff for teachers and students.

• For people with an account on this page: you can log in using your credentials.
• For people without an existing login: don't worry - just create a new moodle login! All you need is your Email address.

So let's start moodle'ing on http://www.opensuse-education.org/moodle/!

The openSUSE Project is running a Community Week from May 11 through May 17 and the openSUSE-Education is part of it. Learn how to get involved with the openSUSE(-Education) Project and become a contributor to openSUSE(-Education). You can help promote the use of Linux everywhere and help make openSUSE the best Linux distro for new and experienced Linux users.

You don’t have to be a developer to participate. We’re looking for all kinds of contributors: writers, translators, artists, teachers, and (of course) developers to help shape openSUSE in Education and the openSUSE Linux distribution.

Learn more about openSUSE and Community Week at: http://en.opensuse.org/CommunityWeek and join our IRC Channel #opensuse-edu on Freenode.

We like to invite everyone to our next openSUSE-Education meeting. This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-Education.

It was held in the #openSUSE-edu Freenode IRC channel on

Please have a look at the Wiki Page to see and edit our topics.

Please understand, that we try to discuss as many topics as possible in english. But as many developers are from germany, we also allow comments in native languages. But we can't guarantee that each question in a native language can be answered.

PS: We add our dates to the official openSUSE Calendar on http://news.opensuse.org. So if you like, just add the URL http://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical to your ICAL-capable calendar application and you'll get always the latest openSUSE related dates.