The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
-its first Wheezy based release today. This is the release
-announcement:
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New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
-2013-04-26
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-
This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
-edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".
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About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
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-
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.
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-
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.
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Software updates
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-
-- Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
-
- - Linux kernel 3.2.x
- - 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.)
- - Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR
- - LibreOffice 3.5.4
- - LTSP 5.4.2
- - GOsa 2.7.4
- - CUPS print system 1.5.3
- - Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01
- - Music creator Rosegarden 12.04
- - Image editor Gimp 2.8.2
- - Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1
- - Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3
- - Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6
- - New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
- installation
- manual for more details.
- - Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
- installation.
- - More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
- release notes and the installation manual.
-
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Documentation
-
-- The (English) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
- German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
- for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.
-
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-
LDAP related changes
-
-- 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.
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Other changes
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-- 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.
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-
-
Regressions
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-- No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
- yet.
-
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-
No updated artwork
-
-
-- 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.
-
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Where to get it
-
-To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
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The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c
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The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2
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How to report bugs
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-
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
-