blog/data/2014-10-27-skolelinux-jessie-alpha0.txt

   1 Title: First Jessie based Debian Edu released (alpha0)
   2 Tags: english, debian edu
   3 Date: 2014-10-27 20:40
   4
   5 <p>I am happy to report that I on behalf of the Debian Edu team just
   6 sent out
   7 <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2014/10/msg00000.html">this
   8 announcement</a>:</p>
   9
  10 <pre>
  11 The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu
  12 Jessie 8.0+edu0~alpha0
  13
  14 Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its
  15 various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations
  16 and laptops which will work together on the school network. With
  17 Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can
  18 roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within
  19 hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications
  20 pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.
  21
  22 For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
  23 installation instructions are available, including detailed
  24 instructions in the manual[1] explaining the first steps, such as
  25 setting up a network or adding users. Please note that the password
  26 for the user your prompted for during installation must have a length
  27 of at least 5 characters!
  28
  29  [1] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie</a> &gt;
  30
  31 Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you
  32 tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer
  33 reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all
  34 the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week?
  35 Check out Debian Edu Jessie!
  36
  37 Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world,
  38 mostly in Germany and Norway.
  39
  40 About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
  41 ===============================
  42
  43 Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux[2], is a Linux distribution based
  44 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
  45 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
  46 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
  47 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
  48 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
  49 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
  50 machines can be installed via the network.  The provided school server
  51 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
  52 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
  53 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
  54 packages[3] and more are available from the Debian archive, and
  55 schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
  56 environment.
  57
  58  [2] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">http://www.skolelinux.org/</a> &gt;
  59  [3] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</a> &gt;
  60
  61 Full release notes and manual
  62 =============================
  63
  64 Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features
  65 and bugfixes of Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie. The full
  66 list is part of the manual. (See the feature list in the manual[4] for
  67 the English version.) For some languages manual translations are
  68 available, see the manual translation overview[5].
  69
  70  [4] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features</a> &gt;
  71  [5] &lt;URL: <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/</a> &gt;
  72
  73 Where to get it
  74 ---------------
  75
  76 To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (624 MiB) you can use
  77
  78  * <a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso</a>
  79  * <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso</a>
  80  * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso .
  81
  82 The SHA1SUM of this image is: 361188818e036ce67280a572f757de82ebfeb095
  83
  84 New features for Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie released 2014-10-27
  85 ===============================================================================
  86
  87
  88 Installation changes
  89 --------------------
  90
  91  * PXE installation now installs firmware automatically for the hardware present.
  92
  93 Software updates
  94 ----------------
  95
  96 Everything which is new in Debian Jessie 8.0, eg:
  97
  98  * Linux kernel 3.16.x
  99  * Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.11.12, GNOME 3.14, Xfce 4.10,
 100    LXDE 0.5.6 and MATE 1.8 (KDE "Plasma" is installed by default; to
 101    choose one of the others see manual.)
 102  * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 38
 103  * !LibreOffice 4.3.3
 104  * GOsa 2.7.4
 105  * LTSP 5.5.4
 106  * CUPS print system 1.7.5
 107  * new boot framework: systemd
 108  * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.07
 109  * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
 110  * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
 111  * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.0
 112  * golearn 0.9
 113  * tuxpaint 0.9.22
 114  * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
 115  * Debian Jessie includes about 42000 packages available for
 116    installation.
 117  * More information about Debian Jessie 8.0 is provided in the release
 118    notes[6] and the installation manual[7].
 119
 120  [6] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes</a> &gt;
 121  [7] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual</a> &gt;
 122
 123 Fixed bugs
 124 ----------
 125
 126  * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
 127    DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
 128    information is corrected (Debian bug #710362)
 129  * and many others.
 130
 131 Documentation and translation updates
 132 -------------------------------------
 133
 134  * The Debian Edu Jessie Manual is fully translated to German, French,
 135    Italian, Danish and Dutch. Partly translated versions exist for
 136    Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.
 137
 138 Other changes
 139 -------------
 140
 141  * Due to new Squid settings, powering off or rebooting the main
 142    server takes more time.
 143  * To manage printers localhost:631 has to be used, currently www:631
 144    doesn't work.
 145
 146 Regressions / known problems
 147 ----------------------------
 148
 149  * Installing LTSP chroot fails with a bug related to eatmydata about
 150    exim4-config failing to run its postinst (see Debian bug #765694
 151    and Debian bug #762103).
 152  * Munin collection is not properly configured on clients (Debian bug
 153    #764594).  The fix is available in a newer version of munin-node.
 154  * PXE setup for Main Server and Thin Client Server setup does not
 155    work when installing on a machine without direct Internet access.
 156    Will be fixed when Debian bug #766960 is fixed in Jessie.
 157
 158 See the status page[8] for the complete list.
 159
 160  [8] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie</a> &gt;
 161
 162 How to report bugs
 163 ------------------
 164
 165 &lt;URL: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a> &gt;
 166
 167 About Debian
 168 ============
 169
 170 The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
 171 free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
 172 the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
 173 volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
 174 maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
 175 huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
 176 operating system.
 177
 178 Contact Information
 179 For further information, please visit the Debian web pages[9] or send
 180 mail to press@debian.org.
 181
 182  [9] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/</a> &gt;
 183 </pre>