Schools Linux 4.4: ready to be downloaded and installed

Schools Linux 4.4 is the new version de Escuelas Linux, an educational distribution designed for the implementation of free software in educational centers of basic to upper secondary education. It not only takes care of the detail of its educational packages, but also some user account configurations to maintain control of minors by the tutor or teacher.

For those who do not know, Escuelas Linux is a distribution based on Ubuntu, like so many others. It has been developed with the intention to replace Microsoft Windows XP in schools, thus avoiding paying licenses and promoting free software. This April 2016, the Escuelas Linux 4.4 version was released and now I clarify Ubuntu a bit, since it has been announced that it will be exceeded in Bodhi Linux 3.2, which in turn is based on Ubuntu.

Schools Linux 4.4 has improved its support for UEFI for a simpler and more user-friendly installation on computers designed for Windows 8 and Windows 10. In addition, many packages have been updated to the latest versions, such as the LibreOffice office suite, Mozilla Firefox, Geogebra, GParted and Chromium. All the packages integrated in the ISO that you can download from Sourceforge, both the Live version for 86-bit x32-32 computers and for the 64-bit AMD64 (Intel EM64T).

For those who do not know Bodhi Linux, the distro on which it is based, is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the Enlightenment Window Manager to consume fewer resources. It's curious, but this new news comes just after having talked about this same distro in a megapost we made in LinuxAdictos.com in which we list the rarest Linux distributions and unknown in an act of getting the "anti-article", since the vast majority are destined to analyze the most important or better distros ...