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+ <title>First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
+its first Wheezy based release today. This is the release
+announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
+2013-04-26</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
+edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, 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>Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel 3.2.x</li>
+ <li>Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
+ (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
+ manual.)</li>
+ <li>Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR</li>
+ <li>LibreOffice 3.5.4</li>
+ <li>LTSP 5.4.2</li>
+ <li>GOsa 2.7.4</li>
+ <li>CUPS print system 1.5.3</li>
+ <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01</li>
+ <li>Music creator Rosegarden 12.04</li>
+ <li>Image editor Gimp 2.8.2</li>
+ <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1</li>
+ <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3</li>
+ <li>Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6</li>
+ <li>New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation
+ manual</a> for more details.</li>
+ <li>Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
+ installation.</li>
+ <li>More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes">release notes</a> and the <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation manual</a>.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>The (<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy">English</a>) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
+ German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
+ for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
+ choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
+ server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
+ configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
+ entry in lts.conf or LDAP.<li>
+<li>GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
+ functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
+ completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
+ yet.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>No updated artwork</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
+ screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
+ had for our Squeeze based release.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+<ul>
+<li>ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
+<li>http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c</p>
+
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2</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>
+</description>
+ </item>
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- <title>Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Via
-<a href="https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930">twitter</a>
-I just discovered that <a href="http://pcwizz.net/">Pcwizz</a> have
-done a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc">video
-review</a> on Youtube of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux
-/ Debian Edu</a> version 6. He installed the standalone profile and
-the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
-a few programs and his view of our distribution.</p>
-
-<p>There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
-have heard wrong). While looking thought the Graphics menu:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"Basically everything you ever need in a school environment."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"So, yeah, a bit bloated. It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
-to keep it nice and GNU. So, I do not want to go on about it, but
-lets give it 7 out of 10. I am not going to use it. That is because
-I am not deploying a school network. There may be some mythical
-feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
-installation option. It make it possible to install only the main
-server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
-considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)</p>
-
-<p>While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
-about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
-
-<blockquote>
-"[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
-is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
-actually don't need in the education distribution, but have just been
-included because it isn't stripped out for some reason."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
-Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries">one
-consistent menu system</a> instead of two incomplete and partly
-inconsistent menu systems.</p>
-
-<p>The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
-embedding:</p>
-
-<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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