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+               <title>First beta release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The first wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b0 released
+2013-07-27&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~b0, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately 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. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the fifth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
+versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
+release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Switched roaming workstation profiles from wicd to network-manager
+   for network configuration, as wicd didn&#39;t work any more.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Changed version numbers of patched gosa and libpam-mklocaluser
+   packages to make sure our locally patched versions will be replaced
+   by the official packages when they are released from Debian. Those
+   installing alpha version need to reinstall or manually downgrade gosa
+   and libpam-mklocaluser.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Added bluetooth tools to the default desktop (bluedevil, blueman).&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Added tools for sharing the desktop on KDE (krdc, krfb).&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Added valgrind to the default installation for easier debugging of
+   crash bugs.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Fixed artwork package to work with gnome, no longer break
+   desktop=gnome installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Adjusted installer to now work when forced to use a proxy with the
+   netinst CD.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Fixed code detecting and setting/loading hardware specific
+   setup/firmware to work more robust out of the box.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Adjusted Kerberos setup to detect realm and server settings at
+   install time instead of dynamically at run time. This avoid a crash
+   with krb5-auth-dialog on diskless workstations without a DNS name.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Worked around misfeature in network-manager not calling the dhclient
+   exit hooks, causing automatic proxy configuration and automatic host
+   name setting at run time to work again.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Fixed feature setting the default Iceweasel start page from URL
+   fetched from LDAP, to allow schools to set the global default by
+   updating the dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no LDAP object.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Changed default host name on all networked machines to be unique
+   (generated from MAC or reverse DNS) after boot.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Adjusted partition sizes to make sure they are big enough.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Grub is missing the new artwork.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;KDE fail to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
+    not use the http proxy as it should.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Chromium also fail to use the proxy.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 55d5de9765b6dccd5d9ec33cf1a07109
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 996a1d9517740e4d627d100de2d12b23dd545a3f&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: d8f0818c51a78d357de794066f289f69
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 49185ca354e8d0543240423746924f76a6cee733&lt;/p&gt;
+
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       

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                <title>How to fix a Thinkpad X230 with a broken 180 GB SSD disk</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html</link>
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                <title>How to fix a Thinkpad X230 with a broken 180 GB SSD disk</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html</link>


@@ -489,7 +621,7 @@ suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
 cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
 When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
 using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
 cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
 When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
 using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require

-working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
+working packages to get it working.  And the packages changed name

 from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
 debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
 packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
 from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
 debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
 packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we


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-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a certain cross-over between the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;the Edubuntu
-project&lt;/a&gt;, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
-effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
-Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
-days vary quite a bit since I&#39;m involved in too many things. As I&#39;m
-getting older I&#39;m learning how to focus a bit more :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
-opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
-each other.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
-first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
-[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
-London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
-Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
-it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
-was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
-day I have a big todo list backlog that I&#39;m catching up with. I think
-over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
-been gradually improving, although I think there&#39;s a lot that we could
-still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I&#39;m sure
-we&#39;ll get there one day.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
-it for pages, but in essence I love that it&#39;s a very honest project
-that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
-very high quality work.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
-set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
-with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
-helps to standardise installations in schools so that it&#39;s easier for
-community members and commercial suppliers to support.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I had to re-type this one a few times because I&#39;m trying to
-separate &quot;disadvantages&quot; from &quot;areas that need improvement&quot; (which is
-what I originally rambled on about)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
-project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
-think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
-content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
-on. When you&#39;ve been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
-years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
-concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
-more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I&#39;d love to be one
-myself but I&#39;m already so over-committed that it&#39;s just not possible
-currently.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
-for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
-their skills in-house. I&#39;m often saddened to see how much money
-educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don&#39;t
-have access to after the service has ended and they could&#39;ve gotten so
-much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
-autonomous.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
-Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
-some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
-particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
-so I suppose I&#39;ll soon be able to regain that disk space :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
-git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I&#39;ve been torn on
-which desktop environment I like and I&#39;m taking some refuge in Xfce
-while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
-Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
-it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
-up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
-X.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
-using Norton Commander in the early 90&#39;s and it stuck (I think the
-people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don&#39;t know how to use
-it :p)
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
-many cases it&#39;s appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
-don&#39;t think that there&#39;s any particular moral or ethical problem with
-that.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
-problems in educational institutions and it&#39;s just a shame not taking
-advantage of that.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
-some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
-Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
-general concepts. I think that&#39;s very unproductive because firstly, MS
-Office&#39;s interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
-that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
-best solution for them.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
-educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
-make a decision that would work for them.&lt;/p&gt;
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