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New features in Debian Edu Buster
Contents
New features for Debian Edu 10+edu0 Codename Buster
Installation changes
New version of debian-installer from Debian Buster, see its installation manual for more details.
New artwork based on the futurePrototype theme, the default artwork for Debian 10 Buster.
- New default desktop environment Xfce (replacing KDE).
New CFEngine configuration management (replacing unmaintained package cfengine2 with cfengine3); this is a major change, for details see the official CFEngine documentation.
- The architecture of the LTSP chroot now defaults to the server one.
Software updates
- Everything which is new in Debian 10 Buster, eg:
- Linux kernel 4.19
- Desktop environments KDE Plasma Workspace 5.14, GNOME 3.22, Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.53, MATE 1.20
- Firefox 60.4 ESR and Chromium 72.0
LibreOffice 6.1
- Educational toolbox GCompris 0.95
- Music creator Rosegarden 18.12
- GOsa 2.74
- LTSP 5.18
- Debian Buster includes more than 57000 packages available for installation.
More information about Debian 10 Buster is provided in the release notes and the installation manual.
Documentation and translation updates
- Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These templates are now available in 76 languages, of which 31 are fully translated.
- The Debian Edu Buster Manual is fully translated to German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål and Japanese.
- Partly translated versions exist for French, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Ukranian.
Other changes compared to the previous release
- The USB ISO image allows offline installations again.
New school level related meta-packages education-preschool, education-primaryschool, education-secondaryschool education-highschool are available. None of them is installed by default.
- Site specific modular installation. It is now possible to install only those educational packages that are actually wanted.
- LXQt 0.14 is offered as new choice for the desktop environment.
New GOsa²-Plugin Password Management.
- Unusable options have been removed from the GOsa² web interface.
New netgroup available to exclude systems belonging to the shut-down-at-night-hosts netgroup from being woken up.
- Improved TLS/SSL support inside the internal network. A RootCA certificate is used to sign server certificates and user home directories are configured to accept it at account creation time; besides Firefox ESR, also Chromium and Konqueror can now use HTTPS without the need to allow insecure connections.
Kerberized ssh. A password isn't needed anymore for connections inside the internal network; root needs to run kinit first to enable it.
With X2Go server now available in Debian, the related packages are now installed on all systems with Profile LTSP-Server.
- Support for running Java applets in the Firefox ESR browser has been dropped upstream.
- Support for nonfree flash has been dropped from the Firefox ESR browser. We have also decided to drop the free but unmaintained gnash implementation.