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Debian Edu / Skolelinux

What is it?

Debian Edu

is a Debian project to make the best distribution for educational purposes. Read more about Debian Edu....

Skolelinux

is the name of a Debian Pure Blend which is produced by the Debian Edu project.

Skole [skuːl] is the Norvegian word for school. Both skole and school come from the Greek word schole.

Goals

Our goals are:

• to provide a complete free software solution:
  • tailored for the needs and use cases of educational scenarios,
  • pre-configured for easy installation (standalone, as well as network-wide roll-out).
  • easy-to-use, maintain, and administer,

  • supporting your language natively.

• to classify and package all free software related to education.
• to write documentation describing how to use the various software applications (in an educational context).
• to achieve international availability, translated into many languages.

Getting started

• Consider running a test install using virtual machines.

• A list of tested hardware is available. Please help update it with any computers you have used.

Download

• See how to download or order Debian Edu.

Install

• Read through the Documentation. The first chapters of the manual would provide a good overview.

Use

• Start using your new system! If you encounter difficulties not covered by the documentation, please add to it after you get help to resolve them.
• Remember that Debian Edu is 99.9% Debian, so almost all help for using Debian also applies to Debian Edu.

Documentation

Manuals

Howtos

Flavours

Educational software (Linux Signpost)

Meta-packages

• Here you can find a complete list of packages which are included by the Debian Edu meta-packages; feel free to propose changes to these on the mailing list.

• For an easy installation of education-related software, there are some meta-packages for DebianEdu.

  • See packages : education-tasks (all education-* packages)

• If you are a developer you might be interested in fixing some bugs. Have a look at the bugs in related packages.

OpenOffice

Debian

Help

Frequently asked questions

Free help

Professional help

More help

• Please try to learn more about Debian Edu first.

• Use the search function of this Wiki!
• If you don't find usable information and solutions for your problem, talk to us. See below!

Talk to us and participate

Mailing lists

• The coordination of this project happens on the debian-edu mailing list.

  • Go there to subscribe to the list, browse its archives, or view some statistics.
  • If you want to send us an email then just do so; you don't have to be subscribed to the list. (But please mention when doing so if you are not subscribed.)

  • GMANE provides a news gateway and a web forum gateway to this list.

• Further /MailingLists deal with user support, translation, and other issues.

  • GMANE provides gateways to them as well.

IRC - Internet relay chat

• irc.debian.org
  channel	topic	language
  #debian-edu	development talk	English
  #skolelinux	user/admin support	multi-language
  #skolelinux.de	user/admin support	German
  #skolelinux.fr	user/admin support	French
  #cipux	development LDAP user admin tool	English

Preparation for the next IRC meeting

List of past IRC meetings

Bug tracking

Debian Edu uses the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS).

View existing bug reports and feature requests or create new ones. Please report bugs against the package debian-edu-config.

Contribute - help us to improve!

Everyone can help

• You can help in many ways:

  • take a look at some ways to /Contribute to DebianEdu

  • write good documentation for education related software

  • join one of our /Teams

  • help with this Wiki
  • (...)

Debian Edu Wiki

• We try to put all useful information (or at least links to it) into these pages.
• You can also edit everything or place comments on any page; this is a Wiki! (You may have to log in first.)

• Any change in the Debian Edu section of the Wiki will be noticed by the Debian Edu team.

• See the complete site map.

Tasks for Debian Developers

• DDs can help in many ways:

  • package and maintain the software listed on /ToPackage

  • package and maintain any software listed at Ofset that is not yet in Debian

  • sponsor non-Debian Developers who are packaging education-related software

  • integrate existing external packages into Debian; see /ToIntegrate

  • help with DebianInstaller to produce an even friendlier installer for people with limited computer skills

  • (...)

Donating Money to the Debian Edu / Skolelinux Project

• If you want to make a donation to the project, please contact the SLX Debian Labs foundation

Reports, presentations and experiences

Reports

Presentations

User experiences

Other languages

We have a 2-page flyer available in over a dozen languages (as PDF and for OpenOffice.org), including:

• French: http://www.skolelinux.fr/ and fr/DebianEdu

• German: http://www.skolelinux.de/ and http://wiki.skolelinux.de/

• Norwegian: http://www.skolelinux.no/

• Polish: http://www.skolelinux.org/pl/

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