Escuelas Linux Changelog

What's new in Escuelas Linux 6.5

• LibreOffice 6.3 in 32-bit? Alive and kicking:
• Escuelas Linux includes LibreOffice 6.3 in our 64-bit edition. But it is also included in our 32-bit edition! As far as we know, Escuelas Linux is the only distro in the world that includes LibreOffice 6.3 in the Linux 32-bit architecture.
• After the decision of The Document Foundation to shut down the release of LibreOffice 32-bit binaries, Escuelas Linux undertook the challenge of having to compile this complex program for our own distribution and, with the help of members of their development community, the result is that LibreOffice 32-bit is still up and running with us in its most recent version.
• And that’s not all. Escuelas Linux will continue providing 32-bit LibreOffice also for future releases of our distribution. That’s our promise.
• Switching to the Office XML format:
• Another important design decision is that in Escuelas Linux, LibreOffice now saves as default in the current format of Microsoft Office (docx, xlsx, pptx). In our previous releases it saved in the as default in the old format (doc, xls, ppt), because it was the best choice for better interoperability to exchange files between platforms. Nevertheless, after sixteen years of use, we believe that is feasible to do this change.
• We reiterate that configuring LibreOffice to save in the Microsoft Office file formats by default is not a decision we like, but it is necessary to cope with some current market realities.
• Don’t forget to try the new redesigned interface of LibreOffice Draw, now with an interesting tabbed UI that fits perfectly with the interface already provided as default in Escuelas Linux for the other LibreOffice apps.
• When updating, the LibreOffice list of recently opened files will be erased, but fear not, the actual files will be intact in the folders were you saved.
• Moksha/Enlightenment update:
• In the last weeks appeared an annoying message asking to update Enlightenment. We previously documented how to update Moksha or how to do a procedure to get rid of that message, but if you update to Escuelas Linux 6.5 you will not see that message again, even if you did not apply the suggested procedures previously.
• New app included: Cheese:
• Do you want to use a webcam in Linux? Then you can’t miss this funny app, in which you can even add superb effect to your videos. You should check the “Quark” effect to disintegrate yourself.
• A welcomed change in FreeOffice:
• FreeOffice is a great office suite, but it had something that, in our opinion, was a severe mistake: to be able to use it you had to do a complex Internet based activation process, and for us it meant that dozens of schools without Internet access simply would not use it, as would be a big chore to have to move computers to a place with Internet to merely activate one single app.
• At last, that way of doing things has been removed, and FreeOffice can be used without activation. Excellent and wise decision from Softmaker!
• Updated apps:
• As usual, Escuelas Linux also includes the most recent versions of OnlyOffice (64-bit), Geogebra, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome (64-bit) or Chromium (32-bit), Vivaldi, LiveCode and Adobe Flash Player. In the “kernel5.2” carpet of your installation medium you will find the packages of most recent version of the Linux kernel to date, to install it easily where it could be needed.
• Bug fixing:
• It had happened to you that, when you tried to unmount a USB stick or external hard drive in the PCMan File Manager, an “Not authorized to perform operation” error message appeared, and you could only unmount from the “Places” gadget on the Desktop? That bug will not happen again, and you can now unmount from any app without any error.