UberStudent
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UberStudent – Linux for Learners
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| Developer | UberStudent EdTech and community contributors |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Long-Term Stable Release 4.1; actively developed and supported |
| Source model | Open source with minor closed source additions |
| Latest release | 4.3 / December 30, 2015 |
| Marketing target | Higher education; Secondary education; Researchers; Knowledge workers; Lifelong learners |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| Default user interface | XFCE and LXDE Editions |
| License | Mainly the GNU GPL; a few other free software licences; minor additions of officially licensed proprietary software |
| Official website | uberstudent.com (official site), uberstudent.org (official site), uberstudent.net (official repository) |
UberStudent is a free and open-source computer operating system and collection of programs for everyone, especially higher education and secondary students, their teachers and schools, as well as researchers, knowledge workers, and lifelong learners.
Dubbing itself "Linux for Learners", UberStudent describes itself as "a cohesive academic success curriculum integrated into an installable, easy-to-use, and full-featured learning platform" aimed at increasing overall student learning and academic computer literacy, and lifelong computer fluency. Its additional aim is to increase the adoption of free and open-source computing platforms, like itself, within higher education and secondary schools. It is designed around a "core academic skills approach to student success," which it describes as "the research and writing, reading, studying, and self-management skills that are essential to all students regardless of their academic major." UberStudent has been described by reviewers as "highly in tune with student needs", "loaded with student-friendly tools and customizations", "perfect for the higher education environment", succeeding at its aims "with aplomb, elegance, and power", "a smart pick for getting your actual schoolwork done", and "fantastic and delicious". It received a positive review in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which cited UberStudent's completeness for doing core academic work, user-friendliness, and free and open source nature. Sixty days after UberStudent's official 15 July 2010 release of UberStudent 1.0 Cicero Full Edition, its first non-beta, DistroWatch ranked it the most popular Linux distribution for education worldwide and the 32nd most popular overall out of the 316 varied distributions tracked by the organization. Weeks after the 4.1 release, it ranked as the fifth-most popular Linix distribution in the world.
UberStudent's current release is 4.3, dubbed Heraclitus. The distribution uses its own dedicated software repository. It can be run from a live CD or USB flash drive, or installed on to a computer's harddrive from either one of those mediums.
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