blog/data/2013-08-22-skolelinux-wheezy-beta1.txt

   1 Title: Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
   2 Tags: english, debian edu
   3 Date: 2013-08-22 09:30
   4
   5 <p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
   6 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
   7 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
   8
   9 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
  10
  11 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
  12 7.1+edu0~b1, 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 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 sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
  34 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
  35 release.</p>
  36
  37 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
  38 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
  39 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
  40 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
  41 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
  42 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
  43 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
  44 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
  45 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
  46 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
  47 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
  48
  49 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
  50
  51 <ul>
  52
  53 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
  54     work also without a attached tty.</li>
  55 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
  56     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
  57     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
  58     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
  59     required).</li>
  60
  61 </ul>
  62
  63 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
  64
  65 <ul>
  66
  67 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
  68 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
  69 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
  70 stick ISO image.</li>
  71 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
  72 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
  73 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
  74     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
  75     cope with this.</li>
  76 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
  77 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
  78     empty password hashes.</li>
  79 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
  80     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
  81     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
  82
  83 </ul>
  84
  85 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
  86
  87 <ul>
  88
  89 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
  90     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
  91 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
  92     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
  93
  94 </ul>
  95
  96 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
  97
  98 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
  99
 100 <ul>
 101
 102 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 103
 104 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 105
 106 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 107
 108 </ul>
 109
 110 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 111 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 112
 113 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 114
 115 <ul>
 116
 117 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 118 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 119 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 120
 121 </ul>
 122
 123 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
 124 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
 125
 126
 127 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 128
 129 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>