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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</div>
  24       <div class="date">10th June 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
  26 today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
  27
  28 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
  29 2013-06-10</strong></p>
  30
  31 <p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
  32 alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
  33
  34 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
  35
  36 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
  37 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
  38 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
  39 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
  40 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
  41 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
  42 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
  43 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
  44 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
  45 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
  46 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
  47 desktop contains
  48 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
  49 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
  50 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
  51 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
  52
  53 <p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
  54 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
  55 Squeeze release.</p>
  56
  57 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
  58
  59 <ul>
  60
  61 <li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
  62 <li>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).
  63 <li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
  64 <li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
  65 <li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.
  66
  67 </ul>
  68
  69 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
  70
  71 <ul>
  72
  73 <li>The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used.
  74 <li>Updated translation of the installation.
  75 <li>New Romanian translation.
  76 <li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
  77 <li>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).
  78 <li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
  79 <li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
  80 <li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
  81 <li>More testsuite tests.
  82 <li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
  83 <li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
  84
  85 <li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
  86 LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
  87
  88 <li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
  89 them up with GOsa².</li>
  90
  91 <li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
  92
  93 <li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
  94 slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
  95 entered password). </li>
  96
  97 </ul>
  98
  99 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 100
 101 <ul>
 102
 103 <li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
 104
 105 <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
 106 available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
 107 missing import feature).</li>
 108
 109 <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
 110
 111 <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
 112 own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
 113 unfixed.</li>
 114
 115 </ul>
 116
 117 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 118
 119 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 120
 121 <ul>
 122
 123 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
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 125 <li><a href="http://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</a></li>
 126
 127 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
 128
 129 </ul>
 130
 131 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
 132 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
 133
 134 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 135
 136 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
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 139       <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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 154 <li>2013
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 157 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
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