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Features

FIXME: the detailed info from the beta releases should be wrapped up into one big block for the final release. until then, this shouldn't be translated.

New in Debian Edu 6.0.4 beta3 Codename "Squeeze" released 2012-01-29

  • The default gateway is now 10.0.0.1/8, not 10.0.2.1/8.
  • The dynamic DHCP range was extended on the backbone network to around 4k IP addresses, and around 200 IP addresses for the thin client network.
  • Enable automatic extending of full file systems on the Main Server by default. This can be disabled in LDAP.
  • Add code to re-enable stopped CUPS queues every hour on the Main Server, and flush all CUPS queues every night. Both can be disabled in LDAP.
  • Add new script pxe-addfirmware to insert hardware firmware in PXE images to support more hardware models.
  • Provide script sitesummary2ldapdhcp to update or populate GOsa² with system objects using information gathered by sitesummary, to make it easier to add new computers to the network.
  • Now we disable (at least some of the) non-working features in GOsa² to avoid confusing system administrators.
  • Drop the 'localadmin' user, and ask during installation of the Main-Server for user name and password for the first user (the admin user). This user is set up as GOsa² administrator, and the 'super-admin' user is no longer created, either.
  • Also the Debian Edu menu reordering is enabled for this initial user.
  • Provide network blocking / exam mode by default, controlled by LDAP. In addition to network blocking, changes to the Squid proxy configuration is needed.
  • Now we provide a KDE menu entry for changing the password in GOsa².
  • Changing passwords using PAM is now working (using a workaround for bug #656309 in libpam-krb5). This will only update the Kerberos password, and not the Samba and GOsa² (LDAP) password.
  • Make sure to report an error and abort the installation when trying to use the netinst images without a working Internet connection, instead of silently installing a broken system.
  • Change partitioning for Standalone installs, to have separate /home/ and no /usr.
  • Give first user on Standalone installs sudo access.
  • Updated documentation and translations
    • including images, as BTS 656846 has been fixed.

New in Debian Edu 6.0.3 beta2 Codename "Squeeze" released 2012-01-07

  • A warning is now issued when installing on too small disks for the profiles selected.
  • Default start page for Iceweasel is now fetched from LDAP at installation and boot time for networked profiles. Set to http://www.skolelinux.org/ for Standalone installations.

  • The home0 partition is now mounted nosuid, to increase security.
  • More tests in the test suite, and correct some of the tests that failed earlier.
  • Nagios no longer reports a problem with the kernel version after boot.
  • Device access for the localadmin user is now handled by PolicyKit and not by adding the user to several groups during installation.

  • The Kerberos KDC setup is now working again.
  • Samba configuration is now working again.
  • The LDAP server is now able to handle more clients after increasing the server's file descriptor limit from 1024 to 32768.
  • Manual down from 31 FIXMEs to 29 (currently)
  • The Roaming Workstation profile is now working again.
  • Quicker shutdown of LTSP clients.
  • Updated default web page content.
  • GOsa² now updates DNS and NFS exports immediately when a system is updated in LDAP, making diskless workstations work right after they are added to the required netgroup.
  • Change KDE/Akonadi configuration to reduce the disk footprint of every user from 144 to 24 MiB.
  • Reinsert local NTP clock on the main-server to ensure clients and server sync clocks also when disconnected from the Internet.
  • Correct PXE installation setup and improve PXE menu.
  • All Nagios checks now work properly after installation (no more problem with kernel version check).

New in Debian Edu 6.0.3 beta1 Codename "Squeeze" released 2011-12-24

  • FIXME: describe new features in squeeze here
  • The 10.0.0.0/8 network is now used instead of 10.0.2.0/23.
  • The DHCP network for 10.0.0.0/8 has been renamed from barebone to intern

  • There are (currently) no pre-defined host entries for client systems in DNS any more (staticXX, ..., dhcpYY...)
  • A new account is created on all machines with disks: localadmin
  • New admin tool: GOsa2.

  • Full Samba NT4 domain support for Windows XP/Vista/7
  • MIT Kerberos5 used for user authentication
  • New profile: roaming workstation
  • no more hardcoded configuration files on workstations

  • Root logins are denied for both KDM and GDM - see Getting started for information how to create a temporary local user

  • All LTSP servers are now also RDP servers by default

  • NFSv4, but without added Kerberos privacy/integrity/authentication. The machines still have to be added to the workstation netgroup to be able to mount the home directories

  • Access to Debian repositories is always done via a proxy on the main server - read more about the implementation details using DHCP and WPAD

  • It is now possible to directly copy the .iso images onto USB sticks

  • Support for powerpc architecture dropped from netinst installation CDs. It is still possible to run Debian Edu on powerpc, but installation is less automated

  • A regression: CD and DVD installs are different.

New in Debian Edu 5.0.6+edu1 Codename "Lenny" released 2010-10-05

  • Everything that is new in Debian 5.0.5 and 5.0.6, which includes support for some new hardware. 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 are maintenance releases and generally don't add new features

  • Several bugfixes, including fixes for Skolelinux bugs #1436, #1427, #1441, #1413, #1450 and Debian bugs #585966, #585772, #585968, #586035 and #585966 plus several which were not filed
  • Merge new web pages from Squeeze - the text is the same, but it provides a new translation for zh, compete translations for all included languages (de, es, fr, it, nb, nl, ru, zh), and a rename of the .no page to .nb to reflect the language used

  • Debian-edu-install: Slovak translation added, updates to German, Basque, Italian, Bokmal, Vietnamese and Chinese translations.
  • Debian-edu-doc: improvements to Italian, Bokmal and German translations as well as overall content and layout
  • Sitesummary: various improvements; most notably, several Nagios checks were added to monitor system health
  • Shutdown-at-night: fix #1435 (did not work with the LDAP host groups populated by lwat).

New features in Debian Edu 5.0.4+edu0 Codename "Lenny" released 2010-02-08

  • Everything that is new in Debian 5.0.4; see the following paragraph for details.

  • More than 80 applications relevant for education are included based on user feedback and user statistics (through Debian Edu popularity contest). The full list of packages is given in the task overview page.

  • Improved student desktop with educational software shortcuts to GCompris, Kalzium, KGeography, KMplot, KStars, Stopmotion and OpenOffice Write and Impress.

  • Dynamic desktop icons and menu options that adjust based on user group.
  • Gnome added as a supported desktop; see the Installation chapter to learn how to install with GNOME instead of KDE as desktop.

  • Support for more than 50 languages.
  • Improved system for user administration and machine identification.
  • Improved diskless and thin client setup.
  • New startup menu letting users choose diskless workstation, thin client or workstation.
  • A diskless workstation option is installed but not activated by default on all servers with the thin-client-server profile.
  • Main-server is set up as a PXE server for booting thin clients and diskless workstations, and for installing to clients' hard or flash drives.
  • 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 powerdns.

  • LDAP server for directory services (NSS) is now located using a SRV record in DNS instead of hardcoding the 'ldap' DNS name. LDAP server for password checks (PAM) is still using the hardcoded 'ldap' DNS name.
  • Multi-architecture (amd64/i386/powerpc) net installer CD.
  • (Most) Packages are downloaded over the Internet.
  • Multi-architecture (amd64/i386) installer DVD capable of installing without network.
  • PulseAudio is provided in addition to ALSA and OSS for sound on workstations and diskless workstation machines.

  • The Barebone profile has been renamed to Minimal, to better reflect what it is.

  • The Nagios3 configuration is now automatically created by sitesummary.
  • The per-user file ~/.xsession-errors is now truncated automatically when the user logs in to avoid filling up the home directory partition with a log that grows indefinitely. The user can disable this by creating ~/.xsession-errors-enable. The system administrator can configure the system to redirect the file to /dev/null by editing /etc/X11/Xsession.d/05debian-edu-truncate-xerrorlog.

  • To ease installation of Debian Edu on hardware needing non-free firmware, the CD and DVD include the following firmware packages: firmware-bnx2, firmware-bnx2x, firmware-ipw2x00, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-qlogic and firmware-ralink.

New features in Debian 5.0.4 upon which Debian Edu 5.0.4+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. 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, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, and Pidgin 2.4.3 (formerly known as Gaim). SWI-prolog is back.

  • Installation from CD/DVD from within Windows
  • Switched from sysklogd to rsyslog as the syslog collector.
  • For more information see the page New in Lenny on wiki.debian.org

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 attention 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 can be extended while the file system is mounted.
    • Support for automatically extending file systems 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.

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