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[http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/news.html]. [[http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/news.html]].

Features

New features in the Debian Edu 5.0.0+edu0 Codename "Lenny" release 2009-??-??

/!\ FIXME: describe new features in 5.0.0+edu0 here.

New features in the "3.0r1 Terra" release 2007-12-05

  • much improved documentation with updated translations to German, Norwegian Bokmal and Italian
  • includes more than 40 bug fixes, improvements and security updates that came to our attentention after the 3.0r0 release

New features in the "3.0r0 Terra" release 2007-07-22

  • Based on Debian 4.0 Etch released 2007-04-08.
  • Graphical installer with mouse support
  • Boot splash with usplash
  • LSB 3.1 compatible
  • Linux kernel version 2.6.18
    • Support for SATA controllers and hard disks
  • X.org version 7.1.
  • KDE desktop environment version 3.5.5
  • OpenOffice.org version 2.0.

  • LTSP5 (version 0.99debian12)
  • Automatic tracking of installed machines using Sitesummary.
  • Automatic configuration of munin using data from Sitesummary.
  • Automatic version control of configuration files in /etc/ using svk.
  • File systems sizes can be extended while the file system is mounted.
    • Support automatically extending file system based on predefined rules.
  • Local Device Support on thin clients.
  • New processor architectures: amd64 (fully supported) and powerpc (experimental support, installation media only boots on the newworld subarchitecture)
  • Multi-architecture DVD for i386, amd64 and powerpc
  • Regression: the CD-install requires Internet access during installation. Previous versions could be installed from one CD without Internet access.
  • Regression: webmin is now removed from Debian because of problems supporting it. We've added a new web based user administration tool named lwat, which doesn't has the same functionality as wlus, the old user administration tool. But wlus requires webmin.

  • Regression: swi-prolog is not part of etch, but was part of sarge. The HowTo teach and learn Chapter describes how to install swi-prolog on etch.

Features in 2.0 release 2006-03-14

  • Based on Debian 3.1 Sarge released 2005-06-06.
  • Linux kernel version 2.6.8.
  • XFree86 version 4.3.
  • KDE version 3.3.
  • OpenOffice.org 1.1.

Features in "1.0 Venus" release 2004-06-20

  • Based on Debian 3.0 Woody released 2002-07-19.
  • Linux kernel version 2.4.26.
  • XFree86 version 4.1.
  • KDE version 2.2.

More information on older releases

More information on the older releases can be found at http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/news.html.