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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</div>
24 <div class="date">26th April 2013</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
26 its first Wheezy based release today. This is the release
27 announcement:</p>
28
29 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
30 2013-04-26</strong></p>
31
32 <p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
33 edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
34
35 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
36
37 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
38 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
39 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
40 network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
41 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
42 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
43 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
44 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
45 installed via the network.</p>
46
47 <p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
48 not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
49 version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
50
51 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
52
53 <ul>
54 <li>Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
55 <ul>
56 <li>Linux kernel 3.2.x</li>
57 <li>Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
58 (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
59 manual.)</li>
60 <li>Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR</li>
61 <li>LibreOffice 3.5.4</li>
62 <li>LTSP 5.4.2</li>
63 <li>GOsa 2.7.4</li>
64 <li>CUPS print system 1.5.3</li>
65 <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01</li>
66 <li>Music creator Rosegarden 12.04</li>
67 <li>Image editor Gimp 2.8.2</li>
68 <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1</li>
69 <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3</li>
70 <li>Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6</li>
71 <li>New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
72 <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation
73 manual</a> for more details.</li>
74 <li>Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
75 installation.</li>
76 <li>More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
77 <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>
78 </ul></li>
79 </ul>
80
81 <p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
82 <ul>
83 <li>The (<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy">English</a>) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
84 German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
85 for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.</li>
86 </ul>
87
88 <p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
89 <ul>
90 <li>Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
91 choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
92 server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.</li>
93 </ul>
94
95 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
96 <ul>
97 <li>LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
98 configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
99 entry in lts.conf or LDAP.<li>
100 <li>GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
101 functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
102 completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.</li>
103 </ul>
104
105 <p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
106 <ul>
107 <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
108 yet.</li>
109 </ul>
110
111 <p><strong>No updated artwork</strong></p>
112
113 <ul>
114 <li>Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
115 screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
116 had for our Squeeze based release.</li>
117 </ul>
118
119 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
120
121 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
122 <ul>
123 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
124 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
125 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
126 </ul>
127
128 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c</p>
129
130 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2</p>
131
132 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
133
134 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
135 </div>
136
137 <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.</div>
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149 <h2>Archive</h2>
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