blog/data/2013-06-10-skolelinux-wheezy-alpha2.txt

   1 Title: Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
   2 Tags: english, debian edu
   3 Date: 2013-06-10 22:50
   4
   5 <p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
   6 today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
   7
   8 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
   9 2013-06-10</strong></p>
  10
  11 <p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
  12 alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
  13
  14 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
  15
  16 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
  17 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
  18 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
  19 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
  20 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
  21 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
  22 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
  23 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
  24 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
  25 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
  26 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
  27 desktop contains
  28 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
  29 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
  30 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
  31 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
  32
  33 <p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
  34 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
  35 Squeeze release.</p>
  36
  37 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
  38
  39 <ul>
  40
  41 <li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
  42 <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).
  43 <li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
  44 <li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
  45 <li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.
  46
  47 </ul>
  48
  49 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
  50
  51 <ul>
  52
  53 <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.
  54 <li>Updated translation of the installation.
  55 <li>New Romanian translation.
  56 <li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
  57 <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).
  58 <li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
  59 <li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
  60 <li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
  61 <li>More testsuite tests.
  62 <li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
  63 <li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
  64
  65 <li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
  66 LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
  67
  68 <li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
  69 them up with GOsa².</li>
  70
  71 <li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
  72
  73 <li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
  74 slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
  75 entered password). </li>
  76
  77 </ul>
  78
  79 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
  80
  81 <ul>
  82
  83 <li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
  84
  85 <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
  86 available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
  87 missing import feature).</li>
  88
  89 <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
  90
  91 <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
  92 own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
  93 unfixed.</li>
  94
  95 </ul>
  96
  97 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
  98
  99 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 100
 101 <ul>
 102
 103 <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>
 104
 105 <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>
 106
 107 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
 108
 109 </ul>
 110
 111 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
 112 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
 113
 114 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 115
 116 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>