I think there has only been one mention of “Edubuntu Studio.”
Anyway, I think that there is a market for an “Edubuntu Studio” or some desktop Linux distribution that is geared, in both form and function, toward open multimedia production through educational mediums and institutions.
In other words, a Linux distribution that will target this particular market.
Who knows? Some adults would prefer the look and feel of an Edubuntu Studio distro to other, more “manly” desktop distributions of Linux.
I can picture Edubuntu Studio as having the playful, cute look of Edubuntu and the multitude of multimedia apps like Ubuntu Studio. Hopefully, the multimedia apps will be easy for the younger student users to use in classes (or at home, if homework needs to be done), although I doubt that most Linux-based FOSS multimedia creation software are geared towards that crowd at the present.
Plus, this distro could set an incredibly low barrier of entry for adult users, at least in comparison to the basic desktop Ubuntu distribution and the like. I could see adult users taking to Linux-based FOSS applications which are on par with the likes of iLife (if not Adobe CS3) or other multimedia creation software suites, at least for creating and organizing basic multimedia in 5 minutes.
I’m in favor of an Edubuntu Studio. Schools often claim that they don’t have enough money to go towards their technology in the classroom, but with a free operating system you can cut half the expenses (from OS and media software) and then use it for more or higher quality equipment. This also leaves open the possibility for a larger base of people to learn about computers and increase the numbers of people acquainted with them and their related hardware and software. I can’t even begin to count how many people in my schools had no idea how to use a computer, let alone manipulate an operating system that is completely different from the mainstream Windows. An Edubuntu Studio would also give a positive exposure of a Linux-based operating system.
I really don’t see why it -wouldn’t- be a good idea to carry through with.
+1 for EduBuStu
I’m a music nut and SEN instructor teacher currently migrating from XP to Ubuntu Studio and enjoying myself. I like the edu possibilities and potential in FOSS :
IDE + Compiler + libs are free so I c go ahead and roll my own…..once I get up to speed on Cubase, Sonar, FL Studio, Acid, Ableton…etc
PS anyone know of a wordshark-alike in FLOSSland? or, failing that, some ideas for development of one?
Nadim
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