wiildOs_1.3.3_is_out
al...@paranoici.org
WiildOs is the first GNU/Linux live and installable distro
that support the wiimote whiteboard for educational purposes.
WiildOs is build from the Ardesia development team; for more info see
http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/wiki/WiildOs
Thanks to all for the collaboration...
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NEWS
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- Persistence
- Now you can build a bootable usb persistent key creating the stick
with usb-creator-gtk or lili and reserving a persistent space.
In this way you will able to save artefacts, install additional
software and customize the system.
- Internet tab
- facebook social network
- wikipedia the free encyclopedia
- youtube share your videos
- gmail google webmail service
- twitter social networking and microblogging
service
- Work tab
- Pdfedit the free editor for PDF documents
- System Profiler and benchmark: show system information
- Development add the Idle environment to support the python teaching
- Office
- Installed LibreOffice (base, calc, draw, impress, math, writer)
instead of Openoffice. Thanks to the dmaths extension you will
can easy inserth math formulas inside your documents.
- google doc; share your doc online
- google calendar; never forgot an other event
- Osmo your personal local organizer
- Freemind to build mindmaps
- Learn tab
- Vue (Visual understanding environment) provides a flexible visual
environment for structuring, presenting and sharing digital
information.
- jclic: educational activities: puzzles, associations, text
exercises, crosswords, scrambled letters, etc
- drawswf: a drawing application to generate flash animations
- scratch: programming system and content development tool
- osp-tracker: investigate the physics of real-life experiments
- language
- educazionik: an Education program for italian primary school
- math
- mathwar: a flashcard math game in which the child plays against
the computer to solve simple addition, subtraction, and
multiplication problems before the computer player answers
- scienze
- openuniverse: 3D solar system simulator that uses NASA open data
- Play tab
- The aqualung audio player has been raplaced by the more friendly
audacious
- Preference
- wicd network manager provides a simple interface to connect to
networks with a wide variety of settings
- System tray icons
- fbxkb keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current
keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.
- xfce-power-manager manages the power sources on the computer and
the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption
- wicd network manager; configure the network connection settings
- Configurations
- easystroke: pre-configured and ready to be used gestures
Start easystroke click on the icon under the "work/universal
access" section
- Translation
- add the italian translation of some menus
- Updates
- kernel 2.6.35-28
- gimp 2.6.8
- vlc 1.0.6
- Gnash has been updated using the repository
http://www.getgnash.org/debs/ubuntu
to see youtube videos inside the Firefox internet
browser without using proprietary software.
- scribus has been updated fro the repo
http://debian.scribus.net/debian/
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