"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment. The current version of Edubuntu is aimed at classroom use, and future versions of Edubuntu will expand to other educational usage, such as university use.

Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community based support.

The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

The Edubuntu Promise
The team behind Edubuntu makes the following public commitment to its users:

• Edubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Edubuntu usable by as many people as possible.

• Edubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported with security updates for at least 18 months.

• Edubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free and open source software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
  

As you can see from the above, Edubuntu has an honest foundation and can be deployed over the space of a weekend with an immediate and ubiquitous uptake by the school.

Pricing

L8 Create charges on a per-computer(£20) installation basis. On an order of 30 installations or more we offer a consultation session for teachers and other staff to ask questions, voice any concerns or add any ideas with regards to software.

One of the main benefits of having a Linux based OS is the wide range of OpenSource Software, which is constantly being developed by the best software authors in the world, second to this is the vast amount of proprietary software, its screen sharing features and unparalleled network capability.

Conventions

With all major changes we always suggest a trial deployment on only a few computers. The operating system itself is real easy to get to grips with and has all of the features that you may be used to with Microsoft and Apple Operating Systems.

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