Kubuntu and Edubuntu 6.06 Beta Review

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Article Index Kubuntu and Edubuntu 6.06 Beta Review Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 5 of 5 The applications that are included in Edubuntu by default are enough for a youngster and still fit on a single CD. Well, you will not find the latest and greatest games but Edubuntu is not a gamers distro, although it, unlike Kubuntu, has games included by default. A screenshot of three of the applications in the Education menu is provided next and the last two screenshots show some of the menus in Edubuntu. I did not try all the applications in Edubuntu 6.06 but from what I have tried, I get the impression that a lot has been done but still there is much to do to achieve stability. Some of the applications from the Live CD crashed after I performed a couple of operations in them but there were applications, for instance GIMP, which behaved exactly as they should. I was happy that GIMP is included by default in the program because this is one of my favorite open source programs. Something that disappointed me in Edubuntu was the lack of default support for MP3s and video files. Since this is an end-user distro that is intended to be easy to use, I think it is reasonable to expect that music and video files will run straight from the start, without having to download and configure additional packages. As with Kubuntu, I tried playing a couple of MP3 files, one .mpg and one .avi and the result was that only the .avi file could start but there was only sound, no picture (the same happened in Kubuntu). I did not make any configuration changes because I wanted to get an authentic feel about the way Edubuntu will handle these. Since most of distros I have tried manage to play music and video files by default, I think this should be the standard, at least for end-user distros. In conclusion, I can say that all three Ubuntu distros are really nice. If they become stable in their final versions, even if this means to postpone the release of the final version for a month or two, I am certain that they will continue to be among the most loved Linux distros. << Prev - Next