KITE set to launch free updated OS for public school computers in Kerala
The Hindu
KITE launches free and open source OS suite for schools in Kerala, featuring AI tools and Malayalam computing, saving ₹3,000 crore.
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), the largest IT grouping of schoolchildren in the country, will launch the new free and open source software-based operating system (OS) suite KITE GNU Linux 22.04 here on Friday (August 23, 2024) when a two-day State-level camp for Little Kites is inaugurated.
A total of 130 selected from among 1,200 students, who attended the district-level Little KITEs camp will participate in the programme organised at the KITE Regional Resource Centre, Edappally.
K. Anvar Sadath, CEO, KITE, said the new operating system, an updated 80.04 version, can be used in three lakh computers in public schools in Kerala. Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty will launch the new OS suit.
The operating system has wide use as it can be deployed freely as a complete computing platform not only for information and communication technologies learning in schools but also for students and teachers as well as for general purposes on computers used at homes, government offices, DTP centres, printing presses, software development companies and by engineering college students.
The new version of the operating system was developed using the Wayland system instead of xorg window mechanism currently used in the operating systems in the schools, Mr. Sadat added.
The OS suite is a customised version of Ubuntu, the popular free and open source software operating system and comprises applications such as GCompris, Tux Paint, PictoBlox, Traffic game, Waste challenge, Omnitux, EDU Activate, PhET, GeoGebra, Libre Office package, Colour Paint, Scratch, Krita.
Given that artificial intelligence (AI) has been included as part of the ICT textbook for Class VII from this year on, the new OS also includes tools to gain basic understanding of concepts related to AI, machine learning, computer vision, and more.
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