Edubuntu is an official derivative of Ubuntu designed for use in classrooms. It includes several education applications and is aimed at users aged 6 to 18. The primary goals of Edubuntu are to enable educators with limited technical skills to easily set up computer labs or online learning environments and to allow low-income schools to maximize the use of older equipment. Edubuntu also aims to provide centralized management of users and resources as well as gather the best free educational software and materials. It contains interactive science simulations and programs for tasks like multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree building to support science education.

1. EDUBUNTU
Prepared by
Sandhya K Kumar
Assistant professor Physical science
MSc, MEd,NET

2. Edubuntu
• Edubuntu, previously known as Ubuntu
Education Edition, was an official derivative of
the Ubuntu operating system designed for use
in classrooms inside schools, homes and
communities.
• Edubuntu was developed in collaboration
with teachers and technologists in several
countries. Edubuntu is built on top of the
Ubuntu base, includes several education-
specific applications, and is aimed at users
aged 6 to 18.

3. Objectives
• It was designed for easy installation and
ongoing system maintenance.
• The primary goal of Edubuntu was to enable
an educator with limited technical knowledge
and skills to set up a computer lab or an on-
line learning environment in an hour or less
and then effectively administer that
environment
• It also aimed to allow low income
environments to maximize utilisation of their
available (older) equipment..

4. • The principal design goals of Edubuntu were
centralized management of configuration, users
and processes, together with facilities for working
collaboratively in a classroom setting. Equally
important was the gathering together of the best
available free software and digital materials for
education.
• According to a statement of goals on the official
Edubuntu website: "Our aim is to put together a
system that contains all the best free software
available in education and make it easy to install
and maintain.

5. Sources of science in Edubuntu
• PhET is a suite of research-based interactive
computer simulations for teaching and
learning physics, chemistry, biology, math’s
and other sciences.
• Celestia is a 3D astronomy software program
created by Chris Laurel. The program allows
users to virtually travel through a computer
generated universe.
• Bioperl is an open source bioinformatics.
• Emboss is the package developed for
molecularbiology and bioinfomatics.

6. • Muscle A program for multiple alignment of
protein sequences.
• Phylip A package of programs of inferring
phylogenies.
• Tree view X is an open source program to
display phylogenetic trees on Linux, and
windows platforms.
• Clustalw This program performs an
alignment of multiple nucleotide or amino
acid sequences.

7. Thank you