Huayra GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Argentine government. Originally developed by the ANSES for the Conectar Igualdad Program, currently it's maintained by the State Company Educ.ar. It's based on the Debian architecture. Having been released in the GNU GPL license, Huayra is free software.
The Huayra team develops educational applications designed for students and teachers. There are also other applications that, while not educational, are designed for young kids.
Theme
"The Huayra desktop presents a unique design. Every version of Huayra comes with a unique theme, the latest being "Liso", which includes a GRUB theme, Plymouth, icon pack, GTK2 and GTK3 application themes, window theme, MDM login manager, wallpapers and screensavers, which improve the user experience with Docky and Synapse".[citation needed]
There are various themes like Verde, Mayo or Limbo.
Versions
This table shows all of the different versions of Huayra.
Version number
Codename
Date
Architecture
Support
Note
0.*
pruebas
1 August 2012
i386
*
Development version made for testing.
1.0
brisa
10 March 2013
i386
*
First released version.
1.1
brisa
14 June 2013
i386
*
Update.
2.0
pampero
24 April 2014
i386
*
Second version.
2.1
pampero
13 August 2014
i386
*
Update.
2.2
pampero
22 November 2014
i386 and x86_64
*
Update. First version optimized for 64 bit processors.
3.0
sud
17 March 2015
i386 and x86_64
*
Third version. Based on Debian 8.2
3.1
sud
21 September 2015
i368 and x86_64
*
Update.
3.2
sud
15 March 2016
i386 and x86_64
*
Update. Based on Debian 8.3
4.0
zonda
–
i386 and x86_64
*
Released. Based on Debian 9
5.0
austral
24 April 2021
x86_64
*
Released. Based on Debian 10 (up to 10.13)
6.0
norte
12 June 2023
x86_64
*
Released. Based on Debian 11
Color
Meaning
Red
Old version, no longer supported.
Yellow
Old version, still supported.
Green
Current version.
Blue
In development.
Huayra 6 «norte» Released on June 12nd, 2023. Based on Debian 11.5 «Bullseye» and a few improvements. Along with a new version of «Huayra Motion» (that includes the ability to conect USB cameras), and its own software store, among others. There was also added a manual called "El libro vivo de hechizos de Huayra Linux"
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