Title: Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
Tags: english, debian edu
Date: 2013-05-14 23:30

<p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
project</a> is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
release today.  This is the release announcement:</p>

<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
2013-05-14</strong></p>

<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
alpha1, based on <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> with
codename "Wheezy".</p>

<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>

<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
other machines can be installed via the network.</p>

<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>

<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
    default.</li>
  <li>Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.</li>
  <li>Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.</li>
  <li>Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
    ibus-anthy.</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
<ul>

  <li>Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
    reliability improvements.</li>
  <li>Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
    of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706434">706434</a>.</li>
  <li>Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
    problems.</li>
  <li>Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
    direct:// URL.</li>
  <li>Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.</li>
  <li>Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.</li>
  <li>Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.</li>
  <li>Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
    servers, to make room for all the software installed.</li>
  <li>Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
    log in (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706753">706753</a>).</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
<ul>

  <li>IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
    (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/705900">705900</a>).  Only install
    libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.</li>
  <li>DVD images are not yet ready.</li>
  <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
    available yet (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">698840</a>).</li>
  <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).</li>
  <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.</li>
  <li>LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
    (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.</li>
  <li>Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
    password submission problem
    (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">700257</a>).</li>

</ul>

<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>

<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
<ul>

  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
  <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</li>

</ul>

<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b</p>

<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c</p>

<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>