blog/data/2013-04-26-skolelinux-wheezy-alpha0.txt

   1 Title: First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
   2 Tags: english, debian edu
   3 Date: 2013-04-26 08:30
   4
   5 <p>The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
   6 its first Wheezy based release today.  This is the release
   7 announcement:</p>
   8
   9 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
  10 2013-04-26</strong></p>
  11
  12 <p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
  13 edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
  14
  15 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
  16
  17 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
  18 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
  19 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
  20 network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
  21 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
  22 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
  23 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
  24 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
  25 installed via the network.</p>
  26
  27 <p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
  28 not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
  29 version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
  30
  31 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
  32
  33 <ul>
  34 <li>Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
  35   <ul>
  36      <li>Linux kernel 3.2.x</li>
  37      <li>Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
  38          (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
  39          manual.)</li>
  40      <li>Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR</li>
  41      <li>LibreOffice 3.5.4</li>
  42      <li>LTSP 5.4.2</li>
  43      <li>GOsa 2.7.4</li>
  44      <li>CUPS print system 1.5.3</li>
  45      <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01</li>
  46      <li>Music creator Rosegarden 12.04</li>
  47      <li>Image editor Gimp 2.8.2</li>
  48      <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1</li>
  49      <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3</li>
  50      <li>Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6</li>
  51      <li>New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
  52          <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation
  53          manual</a> for more details.</li>
  54      <li>Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
  55          installation.</li>
  56      <li>More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
  57          <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>
  58   </ul></li>
  59 </ul>
  60
  61 <p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
  62 <ul>
  63 <li>The (<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy">English</a>) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
  64     German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
  65     for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.</li>
  66 </ul>
  67
  68 <p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
  69 <ul>
  70 <li>Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
  71     choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
  72     server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.</li>
  73 </ul>
  74
  75 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
  76 <ul>
  77 <li>LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
  78     configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
  79     entry in lts.conf or LDAP.<li>
  80 <li>GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
  81     functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
  82     completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.</li>
  83 </ul>
  84
  85 <p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
  86 <ul>
  87 <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
  88     yet.</li>
  89 </ul>
  90
  91 <p><strong>No updated artwork</strong></p>
  92
  93 <ul>
  94 <li>Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
  95     screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
  96     had for our Squeeze based release.</li>
  97 </ul>
  98
  99 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 100
 101 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
 102 <ul>
 103 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
 104 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
 105 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
 106 </ul>
 107
 108 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c</p>
 109
 110 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2</p>
 111
 112 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 113
 114 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>