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Debian Edu/Skolelinux
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Reader supplied reviews for Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Average rating
7.9 from 8 review(s)
Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-01
Votes: 5
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We've installed Debian Edu with KDE desktop on 24 reused laptops for the classroom. It's works really well as standalone machines.
The feedback from teacher are that they really appreciate the straight forward start menu with standard office application, videoplayer and browser. They also use the educational applications in different classes, relevant for different curriculum.
What's really nice, is that such machines no longer supported by newest Windows version, really works nice on the latest Debian Edu. This doubles the lifetime the laptops can be used from 6-7 years to 10-14 years.
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Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-29
Votes: 5
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Now, even Debian Edu can be used effectively on Chromebooks with as little as 16GB hard drive.
By rather using the file system btrfs with standard compression rather than ext4, the system takes up less than 8 GB of space on the eMMC SSD. This means that 7 GB hard drive is free. You can also use zRAM for swap, which uses RAM more efficiently.
Performance with KDE installed on 5-6 year old Chromebooks is impeccable.
Note You must remember to unlock the bootloader and enter a new and open boot system. There is a little extra work here.
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Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 14
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Running Debian Edu with KDE as the default desktop environment works like a charm on 5-15 year old used laptops. Remember as mentioned in another review here to have at least a dual core processor, 2-4GB RAM and at least a 60GB hard drive.
KDE is light weight, have similarities with other operating systems.
The kiosk mode that is supported in KDE transforms any computer to the ultimate open school book, preventing learning to be locked down behind walls of passwords.
The kiosk mode is popular among teachers in Ukraine as they can focus solely on learning and not managing hundreds of passwords.
As someone put it after testing Debian Edu on a 10 year old computer with a mechanical hard drive:
"Now I've been fumbling around a bit with Debian Edu/Skolelinux, easy to use and the only negative I've found is that it takes a little extra time to open the program, but that may have something to do with the machine. If someone in the school system is skeptical about using this, it is purely out of old habit or superstition!"
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Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-28
Votes: 2
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The Skolelinux/Debian Edu is great with the KDE installed as default. By pressing the letter 'e' or 'tab', you can replace the "xfce" parameter with "kde". Then the rest is easy peasy on reused laptops 5-10 years old.
We got really good experiences using laptop hardware that got two cores CPU and 2-4 GB RAM and a hard drive larger than 60 GB. Strangely, the startup is faster than other Linux distributions we've tested. Also Debian Edu got 100 school relevant applications that the kids likes in addition to popular browsers, office packages and multimedia support.
Teachers and principals say Debian Edu is well suited for educational purposes at many schools in Ukraine.
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Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-16
Votes: 6
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This used to be a good distro a while back, but it is not any longer. Resource usage has been through the roof, the use is systemd is a further step into proprietary, closed source territory, gnome is resource intensive and user unfriendly and being based on Debian still, it is no longer as straightforward and easy to use and requires a lot of research.
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Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 3
Date: 2021-12-20
Votes: 27
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Skolelinux is a great Debian-based distro- easy to use, great community and is stable but I think the developers made a wrong move choosing the desktop environment Xfce over the KDE desktop environment. Xfce has been having “feature creep” and adding more and more code into it without too many fixes for memory issues and instability, whereas when it was based on KDE, it was lighter, didn’t use as much ram and wasn’t as slow as now it being based on Xfce.
I unfortunately cannot recommend this distro and will find another Debian-based one with KDE.
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Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-07
Votes: 1
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An easy to use, speedy, stable and beautiful distro. I’ve tried the Cinnamon and KDE desktops, and both are them look great, work well and are easy to upgrade. I wish it was based on Devuan instead of Debian because Debian has been falling apart over the years, and the use of systemd is not comfortable for me.
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Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-17
Votes: 0
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This is a really simple Linuc product.
The best desktop is Cinnamon.
Beautiful and stable for beginners.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-01
Votes: 5
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We've installed Debian Edu with KDE desktop on 24 reused laptops for the classroom. It's works really well as standalone machines.
The feedback from teacher are that they really appreciate the straight forward start menu with standard office application, videoplayer and browser. They also use the educational applications in different classes, relevant for different curriculum.
What's really nice, is that such machines no longer supported by newest Windows version, really works nice on the latest Debian Edu. This doubles the lifetime the laptops can be used from 6-7 years to 10-14 years.
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-29
Votes: 5
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Now, even Debian Edu can be used effectively on Chromebooks with as little as 16GB hard drive.
By rather using the file system btrfs with standard compression rather than ext4, the system takes up less than 8 GB of space on the eMMC SSD. This means that 7 GB hard drive is free. You can also use zRAM for swap, which uses RAM more efficiently.
Performance with KDE installed on 5-6 year old Chromebooks is impeccable.
Note You must remember to unlock the bootloader and enter a new and open boot system. There is a little extra work here.
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 14
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Running Debian Edu with KDE as the default desktop environment works like a charm on 5-15 year old used laptops. Remember as mentioned in another review here to have at least a dual core processor, 2-4GB RAM and at least a 60GB hard drive.
KDE is light weight, have similarities with other operating systems.
The kiosk mode that is supported in KDE transforms any computer to the ultimate open school book, preventing learning to be locked down behind walls of passwords.
The kiosk mode is popular among teachers in Ukraine as they can focus solely on learning and not managing hundreds of passwords.
As someone put it after testing Debian Edu on a 10 year old computer with a mechanical hard drive:
"Now I've been fumbling around a bit with Debian Edu/Skolelinux, easy to use and the only negative I've found is that it takes a little extra time to open the program, but that may have something to do with the machine. If someone in the school system is skeptical about using this, it is purely out of old habit or superstition!"
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 12.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-28
Votes: 2
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The Skolelinux/Debian Edu is great with the KDE installed as default. By pressing the letter 'e' or 'tab', you can replace the "xfce" parameter with "kde". Then the rest is easy peasy on reused laptops 5-10 years old.
We got really good experiences using laptop hardware that got two cores CPU and 2-4 GB RAM and a hard drive larger than 60 GB. Strangely, the startup is faster than other Linux distributions we've tested. Also Debian Edu got 100 school relevant applications that the kids likes in addition to popular browsers, office packages and multimedia support.
Teachers and principals say Debian Edu is well suited for educational purposes at many schools in Ukraine.
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-16
Votes: 6
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This used to be a good distro a while back, but it is not any longer. Resource usage has been through the roof, the use is systemd is a further step into proprietary, closed source territory, gnome is resource intensive and user unfriendly and being based on Debian still, it is no longer as straightforward and easy to use and requires a lot of research.
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 3
Date: 2021-12-20
Votes: 27
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Skolelinux is a great Debian-based distro- easy to use, great community and is stable but I think the developers made a wrong move choosing the desktop environment Xfce over the KDE desktop environment. Xfce has been having “feature creep” and adding more and more code into it without too many fixes for memory issues and instability, whereas when it was based on KDE, it was lighter, didn’t use as much ram and wasn’t as slow as now it being based on Xfce.
I unfortunately cannot recommend this distro and will find another Debian-based one with KDE.
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-07
Votes: 1
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An easy to use, speedy, stable and beautiful distro. I’ve tried the Cinnamon and KDE desktops, and both are them look great, work well and are easy to upgrade. I wish it was based on Devuan instead of Debian because Debian has been falling apart over the years, and the use of systemd is not comfortable for me.
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Project: Debian Edu/Skolelinux
Version: 11.0.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-17
Votes: 0
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This is a really simple Linuc product.
The best desktop is Cinnamon.
Beautiful and stable for beginners.
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