June 12 Distro of the Day: EDU-Nix 3.1

Today's Distro of the Day is EDU-Nix 3.1. EDU-Nix is a Linux distribution that aims to provide public schools with Open Source alternatives to expensive proprietary software products. It attempts to bridge the digital divide by allowing all students access to the same software they use at school.

EDU-Nix is based on SLAX and has a lot of interesting educational software:

• ABI Word 2.4.5
• Celestia 1.4.1
• Childsplay Suite & Plugins 0.85.1
• Gcompris Suite 8.2.2
• Gimp 2.2.13
• GNU Chess 5.07
• Inkscape 0.44.1
• KDE EDU 3.5.5
• KDE Games 3.5.5
• KSudoku 0.3
• KTouch 1.5.1.5
• Mathomatic 12.1c.1
• Samba 3.0.22
• Scribus 1.3.3.7 & Ghostscript 8.5.4
• Stellarium 0.8.2
• TSClient 0.148
• Tux Math 2001-09-07
• Tux Paint 0.9.16 & Tux Paint Stamps 2006-10-21
• Tux Typing 2 1.5.3

Here are a bunch of screenshots of EDU-Nix, and here is a one minute video podcast showing off EDU-Nix:

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