The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up +today. This is the release announcement:
+ +New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released +2013-06-10
+ +This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu +alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".
+ +About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
+ +Debian Edu, also known as +Skolelinux, 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 +more +than 60 educational software packages and more are available from +the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE +and Xfce desktop environment.
+ +This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically +this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the +Squeeze release.
+ +Software updates
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- Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) +
- Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703). +
- Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. +
- Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. +
- Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. + +
Other changes
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- The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used. +
- Updated translation of the installation. +
- New Romanian translation. +
- Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. +
- Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login). +
- Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. +
- New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. +
- Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. +
- More testsuite tests. +
- Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. +
- Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. + +
- Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with +LTSP in Wheezy. + +
- Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set +them up with GOsa². + +
- Update IMAP server setup. + +
- Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in +slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly +entered password). + +
Known issues
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- DVD binary and source images are not yet ready. + +
- No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) +available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager: +missing import feature). + +
- Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). + +
- KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents +own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain +unfixed. + +
Where to get it
+ +To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
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- ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso + +
- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso + +
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso . + +
The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
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The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419
How to report bugs
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