Features
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Features
- New features in the Debian Edu 5.0.3+edu0 Codename "Lenny" release 2009-??-??
- New features in the Debian 5.0.3 on which Debian Edu 5.0.3+edu0 is based
- New features in the "3.0r1 Terra" release 2007-12-05
- New features in the "3.0r0 Terra" release 2007-07-22
- Features in 2.0 release 2006-03-14
- Features in "1.0 Venus" release 2004-06-20
- More information on older releases
New features in the Debian Edu 5.0.3+edu0 Codename "Lenny" release 2009-??-??
FIXME: describe new features in 5.0.3+edu0 here and set the correct release date.
Everything what is new in Debian 5.0.3, see the following paragraph for details.
- Main-server is set up as PXE server for installing clients.
The configuration for DNS and DHCP is stored in LDAP and can be edited using lwat. The DNS server has been switched from bind9 to power-dns.
- Multi arch (amd64/i386/powerpc) net installer CD.
- (Most) Packages are downloaded from over the Internet.
- Multi arch (amd64/i386) installer DVD which is captable of installing without network.
- Add GNOME as supported desktop (FIXME: describe how to install with gnome instead of the default, KDE), add experimental support for the Sugar desktop environment.
New features in the Debian 5.0.3 on which Debian Edu 5.0.3+edu0 is based
- New Linux kernel 2.6.26 supports more hardware
With this release, Debian GNU/Linux updates from X.Org 7.1 to X.Org 7.3 (which includes support of newer hardware) and now includes the desktop environments KDE 3.5.10 and GNOME 2.22. OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 Updates of other desktop applications include iceweasel (version 3.0.6, which is the unbranded Firefox web browser) and icedove (version 2.0.0.19, which is the unbranded Thunderbird mail client) as well as upgrades to Evolution 2.22.3 and Pidgin 2.4.3 (formerly known as Gaim).
- Installation from CD/DVD from within Windows
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.