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+Title: First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
+Tags: english, debian edu
+Date: 2013-04-26 08:30
+
+<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>
+
+ * 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.
+
+<p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
+
+ * 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.
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+
+ * 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.
+ * 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.
+
+<p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
+
+ * No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
+ yet.
+
+<p><strong>No updated artwork</strong</p>
+
+ * 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.
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+
+ * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/
+ * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/
+ * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/
+
+The MD5SUM of this image is:
+ * c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c
+
+The SHA1SUM of this image is:
+ * 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2
+
+<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>