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Escuelas Linux, the award-winning educational distribution, is back with its new releases: 7.5 for 64-bit and 6.19 for 32-bit (2022-06-03 23:46 by escuelaslinux #90170)

In short, we offer a well-rounded Linux valuable distribution for educational and general purposes. You can use it online or offline, and it includes a selection of apps from third parties and some apps of our own, designed to ease the maintenance of public-access computers. Of course, you can disable our custom features if you're working on private computers. Please look at our Installation Manual to know more about our distinctiveness features.

As usual, we offer the latest releases of selected apps to maximize your computer mediated experiences with a plethora of fixes and new features:

Balena Etcher 1.7.9 (32/64)

Process ISO images into USB sticks.

Blender 3.1.2 (64)

Create superb 3D-oriented characters and films.

Chromium 101 (32)

The open source web browser.

Digikam 7.6 (64)

Process your digital photos.

Firefox 100 (32/64)

Browse the web with one of the industry standards.

ffmpeg 4.4.2 (32/64)

Tool for audio and video processing.

GCompris 2.4 (32/64)

The leading open source educational suite.

Google Chrome 102 (64)

Navigate the web with the leader.

IBM Java 8.0.7.6 (32/64)

Create or use Java apps.

Inkscape 1.2 (64)

The program to create and edit vector drawings.

Kernel 5.17.5 (64)

This kernel was patched and packed by System76, the fantastic company that produces Linux-preinstalled laptops and desktops.

Kdenlive 22.04.1 (64)

Powerful video editing app.

LibreOffice 7.3.3 (32/64)

The office suite gets its third iteration of the 7.3 series with many fixes and improvements.

Moksha 0.3.4 (32/64)

General fixes and features in the Bodhi Linux desktop environment.

OBS Studio 27.2.4 (32/64)

Video recording and live streaming.

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors 7.1 (64)

Get this office suite installed and ready to use.

Veyon 4.7.3 (32/64)

Veyon allows you to monitor and control computers. Check the script in our Installation Manual to ease the process.

VLC 3.0.17 (32/64)

One of the best media players in the world.

Wine 7.9 (32/64)

Run Windows apps from Escuelas Linux.

Zoom 5.10.4 (64)

Make online video-conferences and meetings.

FIXED BUGS

-OBS Studio crashed when using it on our 7.4 version. Bug solved. (64)

-The "Configure printers" app hung when selecting another driver for an already configured printer. Fixed. (64)

-When using a Wine application from version 7.4 or 6.18, it could hang on an infinite loop that made necessary to reboot the computer. Problem solved. (32/64)

-Our "RestoreUser" app didn't reset a Wine configuration to our default one. Issue solved. (32/64)

-It was not possible to play MIDI, aac, and ac3 files. Issue fixed. (32/64)

DOWNLOAD ESCUELAS LINUX

Escuelas Linux 7.5 64-bit and 6.19 32-bit are available for download right now at:

https://osdn.net/projects/escuelaslinux/releases/

Once there, download the .z01 and .zip files for the architecture and language that you'd like to use:

-32-bit for relatively old computers with more than 700 MB of RAM and less than 3 GB, or 64-bit for computers equal to or more than 3 GB of RAM and/or UEFI-based ones.

-Your preferred language (English or Spanish).

HOW TO GENERATE YOUR ISO IMAGE

-On Windows and Escuelas Linux systems, uncompress with the file manager ONLY the .zip file to generate the ISO image.

-On macOS (Intel), you should install The Unarchiver app and uncompress ONLY the .z01 file to generate the ISO image.

-On Linux distributions that cannot handle the uncompression of split zip files in their file manager, open a terminal and type the following commands:

cd {path and folder name where the zip and z01 files are} (enter)

zip -s- escuelaslinux*zip -O todo.zip (enter)

unzip todo.zip (enter)


If you have computers between 512 and 700 MB of RAM, then download Escuelas Linux 6.19 LowMem! Check the Installation Manual to know how to setup it.

The 7.5 and 6.19 Installation Manual is available in English and Spanish languages:

-installationManualEscuelasLinux-osdn-7.5-and-6.19-english.pdf

-manualDeInstalacionEscuelasLinux-osdn-7.5-y-6.19-espanol.pdf

(Last Update: 2022-06-05 20:23 by escuelaslinux)