Linux Educational Distributions

- Educanix

is a free GNU/Linux live distribution specially developed for kids between 3 and 8 years old. It is based on a Debian and metadistros (the most important project oriented to create a system and framework to make distros for an specific group of users). Educanix has many packages including different knowledge areas as mathematics science, language or geography. All of them are complemented with games for learning how to use the computer, kid's entertainment, logic structures, etc.

A live distribution (live-CD) is the one that is executed only in main memory (RAM), with no need of a hard disk, allowing the user to learn how to use this operative system without the danger of damaging the system. By simply restarting the computer all the configurations and programs will return to the default values, as they were before the execution of this live-CD. The main advantage of these distributions is that it doesn't take much time to boot, having in account that everything is decompressed in RAM; in approximately 3 minutes you will have a completely working linux on your machine, with maybe 1Gb of applications, libraries, multimedia.

Get Educanix : http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/dredirect.php?id_download=136

- Edubuntu

"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment. The current version of Edubuntu is aimed at classroom use, and future versions of Edubuntu will expand to other educational usage, such as university use. Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community based support.

The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

These freedoms make Edubuntu fundamentally different from proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you, and thousands of developers around the world, have the right to modify and build upon your software until it works exactly the way you want it to.

Get Edubuntu : http://edubuntu.org/Download