FedoraEDU

I’ve been reading about the “Endless” OS, a Linux-based OS that requires no or limited internet access. It’s designed for the educational market and home use. It has offline Wikipedia access, a library of e-textbooks, and all the apps you’ll ever need. I think it should have competition.

I propose that there should be a “spin” of Fedora, that requires to be of a longer term than the typical Fedora life cycle. Why not include offline Wikipedia access, and why not offer a library of e-textbooks on computer-related subjects to the English language?

FedoraEDU, as I call it, would help schools and universities offer an alternative to Windows or Mac-based OSes. It has the potential to be an incredible tool for poor students striving toward higher academic goals. Mark us McLaughlin, via email

Neil says

A decade ago there was the fedoraproject.org/wiki/

K12Linux project, which appears to have been short lived. If you’re looking for inspiration there are a number of existing educationbased distros, but most are in need of an update. Edubuntu might be better known, but because it’s based on Ubuntu 14.04, it’s rather outdated. Uberstudent is a little more up to date, but hasn’t had a major release since the end of 2015.

There’s DebianEdu aka Skolelinux, which is right up to date, but likely doesn’t meet all of your criteria. Finally, is the less-well know openSUSE Education Li-f-e, possibly not that well known.

You can find more on this at https://en.opensuse.org/ openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e and its comprehensive install. As you might know, www.

kiwix.org/downloads offers various packages of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, WikiQuote and more for download with offline access. Part of this is a system for sharing Wikipedia locally over a network, including from a Raspberry Pi, which is neat.