- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html">Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th January 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
-for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
-Launcher and updated the Debian package
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
-sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I
-also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
-hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
-plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a
-git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
-contribute. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
-is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
-years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in
-the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
-bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out
-the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
-view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
-git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
+ <div class="date">26th April 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
+its first Wheezy based release today. This is the release
+announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
+2013-04-26</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
+edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
+services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
+and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
+environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
+the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
+installed via the network.</p>
+
+<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
+not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
+version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel 3.2.x</li>
+ <li>Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
+ (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
+ manual.)</li>
+ <li>Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR</li>
+ <li>LibreOffice 3.5.4</li>
+ <li>LTSP 5.4.2</li>
+ <li>GOsa 2.7.4</li>
+ <li>CUPS print system 1.5.3</li>
+ <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01</li>
+ <li>Music creator Rosegarden 12.04</li>
+ <li>Image editor Gimp 2.8.2</li>
+ <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1</li>
+ <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3</li>
+ <li>Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6</li>
+ <li>New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation
+ manual</a> for more details.</li>
+ <li>Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
+ installation.</li>
+ <li>More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes">release notes</a> and the <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation manual</a>.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>The (<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy">English</a>) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
+ German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
+ for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
+ choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
+ server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
+ configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
+ entry in lts.conf or LDAP.<li>
+<li>GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
+ functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
+ completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
+ yet.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>No updated artwork</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
+ screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
+ had for our Squeeze based release.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+<ul>
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c</p>
+
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>