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15 <a href=
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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
"date">27th October
2014</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>I am happy to report that I just sent out
26 <a href=
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2014/10/msg00000.html">this
30 The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu
31 Jessie
8.0+edu0~alpha0
33 Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its
34 various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations
35 and laptops which will work together on the school network. With
36 Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can
37 roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within
38 hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications
39 pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.
41 For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
42 installation instructions are available, including detailed
43 instructions in the manual[
1] explaining the first steps, such as
44 setting up a network or adding users. Please note that the password
45 for the user your prompted for during installation must have a length
46 of at least
5 characters!
48 [
1]
<URL:
<a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie
</a> >
50 Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you
51 tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer
52 reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all
53 the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week?
54 Check out Debian Edu Jessie!
56 Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world,
57 mostly in Germany and Norway.
59 About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
60 ===============================
62 Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux[
2], is a Linux distribution based
63 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
64 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
65 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
66 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
67 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
68 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
69 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
70 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
71 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
72 services. The desktop contains more than
60 educational software
73 packages[
3] and more are available from the Debian archive, and
74 schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
77 [
2]
<URL:
<a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">http://www.skolelinux.org/
</a> >
78 [
3]
<URL:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html
</a> >
80 Full release notes and manual
81 =============================
83 Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features
84 and bugfixes of Debian Edu
8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie. The full
85 list is part of the manual. (See the feature list in the manual[
4] for
86 the English version.) For some languages manual translations are
87 available, see the manual translation overview[
5].
89 [
4]
<URL:
<a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features
</a> >
90 [
5]
<URL:
<a href=
"http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/
</a> >
95 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (
624 MiB) you can use
97 *
<a href=
"ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-
8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso
</a>
98 *
<a href=
"http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-
8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso
</a>
99 * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-
8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso .
101 The SHA1SUM of this image is:
361188818e036ce67280a572f757de82ebfeb095
103 New features for Debian Edu
8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie released
2014-
10-
27
104 ===============================================================================
110 * PXE installation now installs firmware automatically for the hardware present.
115 Everything which is new in Debian Jessie
8.0, eg:
117 * Linux kernel
3.16.x
118 * Desktop environments KDE "Plasma"
4.11.12, GNOME
3.14, Xfce
4.10,
119 LXDE
0.5.6 and MATE
1.8 (KDE "Plasma" is installed by default; to
120 choose one of the others see manual.)
121 * the browsers Iceweasel
31 ESR and Chromium
38
125 * CUPS print system
1.7.5
126 * new boot framework: systemd
127 * Educational toolbox GCompris
14.07
128 * Music creator Rosegarden
14.02
129 * Image editor Gimp
2.8.14
130 * Virtual stargazer Stellarium
0.13.0
133 * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
134 * Debian Jessie includes about
42000 packages available for
136 * More information about Debian Jessie
8.0 is provided in the release
137 notes[
6] and the installation manual[
7].
139 [
6]
<URL:
<a href=
"http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes
</a> >
140 [
7]
<URL:
<a href=
"http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual
</a> >
145 * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
146 DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
147 information is corrected (Debian bug #
710362)
150 Documentation and translation updates
151 -------------------------------------
153 * The Debian Edu Jessie Manual is fully translated to German, French,
154 Italian, Danish and Dutch. Partly translated versions exist for
155 Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.
160 * Due to new Squid settings, powering off or rebooting the main
161 server takes more time.
162 * To manage printers localhost:
631 has to be used, currently www:
631
165 Regressions / known problems
166 ----------------------------
168 * Installing LTSP chroot fails with a bug related to eatmydata about
169 exim4-config failing to run its postinst (see Debian bug #
765694
170 and Debian bug #
762103).
171 * Munin collection is not properly configured on clients (Debian bug
172 #
764594). The fix is available in a newer version of munin-node.
173 * PXE setup for Main Server and Thin Client Server setup does not
174 work when installing on a machine without direct Internet access.
175 Will be fixed when Debian bug #
766960 is fixed in Jessie.
177 See the status page[
8] for the complete list.
179 [
8]
<URL:
<a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie
</a> >
184 <URL:
<a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
</a> >
189 The Debian Project was founded in
1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
190 free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
191 the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
192 volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
193 maintain Debian software. Available in
70 languages, and supporting a
194 huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
198 For further information, please visit the Debian web pages[
9] or send
199 mail to press@debian.org.
201 [
9]
<URL:
<a href=
"http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/
</a> >
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8)
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512 <li><a href=
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4)
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514 <li><a href=
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