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Manual for Debian Edu 6.0.6+r1 Codename "Squeeze"

Debian Edu login

This is the manual for the Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.6+r1 release.

The version at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze is a wiki and updated frequently.

Translations are part of the debian-edu-doc package which can be installed on a webserver, and is available online.

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu aka 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 (see the next chapter details of the architecture of this setup), just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI, or any other LDAP editor. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or usbstick all other machines can be installed via the network, this includes "roaming workstations" (ones that can be taken away from the school network, usually laptops or netbooks) as well as PXE booting for diskless machines like tradional thin-clients.

Several educational applications like celestia, drgeo, gcompris, geogebra, kalzium, kgeography and solfege are included in the default desktop setup, which can be extended easily and almost endlessly via the Debian universe.

Some history and why two names

Skolelinux is a Linux distribution created by the Debian Edu project. As a Debian Pure Blends distribution it is an official Debian subproject.

What this means for your school is that Skolelinux is a version of Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school-network.

The Skolelinux project in Norway was founded on Juli 2nd 2001 and about the same time Raphael Herzog started Debian-Edu in France. Since 2003 both projects are united, but both names stayed. "Skole" and (Debian-)"Education" are just two well understood terms in these regions.

The main target group in Norway initially were schools serving the 6-16 years age bracket. Today the system is in use in several countries around the world, with most installations in Norway, Spain, Germany and France.

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