Linux-EduCD
Translation from Linux-EduCD Site:
Linux-EduCD is educational-scientific LiveCD distribution. It is complete and wprking OS boot directly from CD/DVD. It doesn’t require installation, which is, nonetheless, possible as in case of every other typical Linux distro.
It aims at possibly simpliest way of using and installing. As a distro based on Debian Testing/SID and Knoppix / Kanotix, it is equipped in tols, wich automaticly configure hardware while booting. Primarily it was only to contain educational and scientific packages, and multimedia, but in the course of time it was expanded by HTTP and database server software. It is also extended by office applications and diagnostic tools. There is also polish manual prepared (description of installation and configuration of system and additional educational software from CD) - and next versions of this manual are distributed (in pdf format) with Linux-EduCD ISO images altogether.
Linux-EduCD’s software are educational, graphic-manipulation, office and multimedia applications. DVD version includes also the ones related to network monitoring and safety, e.g.: Wireshark, Nessus with additional plugins, Nmap, steganography tools… This distro doesn’t require practically any other configuration (of course except for printer or network - if we don’t use DHCP). It starts with ready-to-go graphical interface (KDE). Polish is the default distro’s language. CD editions have configured LTSP serwer (allows many people to simultaneously use the same computer). Furthermore there is a lot of scientific (e.g. Scilab, GFortran, GAP, Yacas, Celestia, OpenDX, PyMOL) educational (Kalzium, Kstars, Keduca, DrGeo, TuxMath, Stellarium, XDrawChem, GPeriodic) software and developers’ tools (e.g. JDK, Eclipse, Mono with Gtk# and F#, Ada95 and 2005, Fortran, Prolog, Ruby, OCaml, SML, Scheme). There are also available scripts helping to install nvidia and ati drivers and graphic firewall configuration programm (working also from LiveCD).
