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23 <div class=
"title">Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
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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>
28 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu
7.0.0 alpha2 released
29 2013-
06-
10</strong></p>
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>
34 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
</strong></p>
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
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>
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
57 <p><strong>Software updates
</strong></p>
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.
69 <p><strong>Other changes
</strong></p>
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.
85 <li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
88 <li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
89 them up with GOsa².
</li>
91 <li>Update IMAP server setup.
</li>
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>
99 <p><strong>Known issues
</strong></p>
103 <li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.
</li>
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>
109 <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).
</li>
111 <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #
502192: menu-xdg: invents
112 own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
117 <p><strong>Where to get it
</strong></p>
119 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
</p>
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>
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>
127 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-
7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .
</li>
131 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is:
27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
132 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419
</p>
134 <p><strong>How to report bugs
</strong></p>
136 <p><a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
</a>
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
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