Top 10 Best Distros for Education in 2025 – Part II
A few days ago, we shared with you A great first Top of Educational Distros or suitable for use in education by students and teachers in many educational units around the world and at different levels of education. In which, by the way, we explore in alphabetical order the first 8 free, open and educational projects out of 18 that we have collected, analyzed and catalogued, and whose names were the following: AcademiX GNU/Linux, Canaima GNU / Linux, DebianEdu, Edubuntu, Emmabuntüs, Endless OS, Linux schools y GNU/Linux AirportAnd as we promised you in the same, now we offer you a second part of this great publication where we will address the following 5 known and registered by us, to continue with this «Top Distros for Education» in 2025.
And also, as we did in the last post, in recognition of similar discontinued projects for their contribution to the educational Linuxverse, today we will also take the opportunity to briefly mention them along with others: DoudouLinux, Qimo, OpenSUSE Education Life, between Other discontinued educational distros.
Top Education-Oriented Distros for 2025
But, before I begin to briefly mention and describe each of the following 5 of this «Top of best Education-Oriented Distros for 2025», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
DebianEdu (also known as Skolelinux) is a Debian-based distro (with XFCE) created by the Debian project itself (Debian Pure Blends) that seeks to offer an operating system suitable for educational use, that is, as a global free software computing solution designed to adapt to the resources and needs of schools. From its origins until today, it is being developed by a large and growing international community that has managed to configure a terminal server environment suitable for most educational scenarios. For this reason, it comes with most educational services and content preconfigured from the factory.
Top Education-Oriented Distros for 2025 – Part II
Top with more of the best Distros for Education (in alphabetical order)
Learning Stick: Based on Debian
Learning Stick is a Debian-based distribution designed primarily to operate live and as a secure learning and working environment on external storage media such as USB flash drives, USB hard drives or SD cards. Its aim is to be able to be used on any type of computer, allowing you to boot from these storage media and portable operating system. And like any live and pre-installed operating system, it includes everything essential and necessary to offer a personal and mobile learning and working environment, especially for pupils and students who want or need to use a private portable device for school purposes.
Life: Based on Ubuntu Mate
Life (Linux for Education) is a Ubuntu Mate-based distribution that aims to offer an educational operating system suitable for teachers and students at schools and universities. However, it is also quite optimal for anyone to use, as it includes tons of useful applications ready to be used by average home and office users, and a complete and very easy-to-use desktop. Lastly, and among many other things, it stands out for offering all the applications required by the textbooks, such as compilers and IDEs for Java, C, C++, etc., all components of the LNMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP) and web design tools such as Bluefish and VS Code, Tuxmath, Tuxpaint, R programming, text editors such as VI, gedit, scite, etc., educational games, among many others.
LinKat: Based on Ubuntu
LinKat Ubuntu is a distribution based on LTS versions of Ubuntu for educational purposes that has been designed and is offered by the Department of Education of the region of Catalonia, Spain, for the local and foreign educational community. It is a free software project that allows educational centers, but also the entire society, to have legal, free and professional technical support access to a very wide range of applications: educational, office automation, Internet, multimedia, among other categories. In this way, it promotes the use of free software to favor the extension of digital literacy while respecting the law, the promotion of the principles of collaborative work, so necessary for the knowledge society to advance on the correct and fair path, technologically speaking.
Linux School: Based on Ubuntu
Linux School is a Ubuntu-based distribution that offers the installation of a single server or a set of servers according to different needs. For this, it includes the installation and management of a Primary Domain Controller (Samba4), Additional Domain Controllers (Samba4), Active Directory, Groupware (SoGo), Email (DoveCot/IMAP), E-Learning (Moodle), DHCP with failover, External file access (Owncloud), Website (Joomla), Printing (CUPS), Internet Proxy (Squid), Filtering (e2guardian with failover), Radius, Digital Signage (Xibo), OS Distribution, Reverse Proxy (NGINX), Monitoring with email and SMS alerts, Distributed storage systems (Gluster FS), E-Learning development environment (Xerte).
MAX: Based on Ubuntu
MAX (MAdrid_linuX) is an Ubuntu-based distribution created by the Digitalization Department of the Madrid region that offers a free and open source operating system for personal computers that includes hundreds of free and open source general purpose and educational applications. And precisely, in terms of the educational field, MAX in the classroom allows and facilitates students to carry out the same activities at home without having to pay for a proprietary operating system or, in the worst case, pirate it. In addition, it comes preconfigured for use in the classroom, with hundreds of educational applications ready to be used, saving a lot of installation time and without licensing costs. Finally, it includes a specific menu for in-person, semi-in-person and distance learning, both its own and from third parties.
Finally, it is important to highlight that, We have 5 more educational distros left more that we will explore in a Third and final part of this series of publications, but so that you know in advance their names and official websites, they are the following:
- PrimTux: Based on Debian.
- Sugar Labs: Based on Fedora.
- Trisquel Sugar Toast: Based on Debian.
- Ubermix: Based on Ubuntu.
- Zorin Education: Based on Ubuntu.
- Alt Education: Based on ALT Linux.
Summary
In short, and as we can see with this second part of this great and renewed «Top with some of the best Education-oriented distros still relevant for 2025», there is a very wide range of alternatives within the educational Linuxverse to choose from and apply in a computerized classroom or computer lab to teach many different educational contents to pupils and students of any age. But, in case you know any other current project not mentioned in this Top that is worth being included in this post For its dissemination and support, we invite you to mention it via comments for review and possible inclusion.
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