'Snowlinux 4 "Glacier" is based upon Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 "Wheezy" and
uses Linux 3.5. MATE 1.4 is the default desktop environment and
LightDM as new default login manager to replace GDM 3. It was built an
own greeter for LightDM. There were introduced much new features like
snowMenu, the Snowlinux menu and snowMount, the Snowlinux mount tool
for drives. The Snowlinux-Metal-Theme was colored blue and the icon
set was updated with the latest Faience icons. Snowlinux uses Pidgin
now as default IM client. This release comes along Firefox 17 and
Thunderbird 17, LibreOffice, Rhythmbox and Shotwell.'
-- source: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07652
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Last year a group of UK teachers started working on a Creative Commons
licensed teaching manual for the Raspberry Pi. That work has produced
the Raspberry Pi Education Manual which is available at the Pi Store
or here as a PDF. From Raspberry Pi: "The manual is released under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 unported
licence, which is a complicated way of saying that it’s free for you
to download, copy, adapt and use – you just can’t sell it. You’ll find
chapters here on Scratch, Python, interfacing, and the command line.
There’s a group at Oracle which is currently working with us on a
faster Java virtual machine (JVM) for the Pi, and once that work’s
done, chapters on Greenfoot and Geogebra will also be made available –
we hope that’ll be very soon."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/02/2316251/raspberry-pi-gets-an-open-s…
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
