Pressemappe zur Veröffentlichung in den Medien über die Veröffentlichung von 5.0.

Die Pressemappe enthält folgende Teile:

  1. Eine allgemeine Pressemitteilung über die Verfügbarkeit von Skolelinux 5.0 mit Ansprechpartnern für Medien aus fünf Ländern und allgemeinen Informationen.
  2. Zitate von Nutzer-, Beta-Testern, Entwicklern und Medien-Kontakten.
  3. Bitte fügen Sie Bilder und Screenshots der Nutzer von Desktop und Anwendungen ein? <fixme: bitte Bilder empfehlen>

Die Pressemappe ist in Englisch und anderen Sprachen verfügbar. <fixme: add them when we have them> online at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/PressReleases/

Medien Information

Dies ist die frei verfügbare Pressemappe über Debian Edu ("5.0.4+edu0"), das eine Debian Pure Blends Linux Distribution basierend auf Debian 5.0.4 ("Lenny") ist.

Bei Fragen zu der "Pressemappe" oder jeglichem Inhalt darin, kontaktieren Sie bitte die Debian-Edu Medien Kontakte, die Sie hier finden können: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/PressReleases/PressPackage_5.0/German

1: Pressemitteilung

Debian-Edu: Skolelinux 5.0 verfügbar zum kostenlosen Download!

* Oslo, Hamburg, Badajoz, Tokio, Taipeh - February 8, 2010

Skolelinux 5.0 ist fertig. Dies ist eine Community Veröffentlichung mit umfassender Unterstützung von regionalen and nationalen Projekten in Norwegen, Deutschland, Spanien, Dänemark, Taiwan, Japan und anderen Orten. Skolelinux ist Debian für die Bildung, erstellt durch das Debian Edu Team.

Mehrere andere Projekte haben zusätzliche Funktionalitäten zu Skolelinux beigetragen, um es sowohl für die lokalen und die internationalen Bedürfnisse abzustimmen. Skolelinux kann in mehr als 50 Sprachen installiert werden.

Screenshots und Downloads

Skolelinux Developers

Was ist in der Standard-Installation neu:

Skolelinux is now deployed at many schools in municipalities, regions and states throughout Europe, Asia and South America. It is used by 250.000 students and teachers at 200 schools in Extremadura. The German states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Hamburg are providing Skolelinux for their schools. The Indian state Karnataka are basing their ICT@School project on Skolelinux. The Debian Edu team also co-operates with the Debian based Linux Educacionale distribution, used by more than 30 million students in Brazilian schools.

Enterprise solution

Skolelinux is designed to be extremely stable for millions of students. In many countries, the educational sector maintains more computers than any other part of the government. When supporting tens of thousands or millions of users, bleeding edge software is not an option. The software installed with Skolelinux is carefully hand-picked and configured with stability in mind.

Skolelinux is built on Debian, which has 2-3 year release cycles and an extended period for security updates. Debian is the most comprehensive and rigorously tested GNU/Linux distribution on the market. It is the most popular server system in German businesses and the basis for Maemo, Nokia's mobile PC platform which is used on N900. Being built with Debian, Skolelinux promotes stability and low maintenance costs.

The newest Skolelinux has lower hardware requirements than proprietary alternatives. Instead of upgrading to newer hardware when a proprietary vendor upgrades their operating system, schools can extend their hardware lifetime by 5-8 years using Skolelinux. This allows schools to run twice the number of computers with Skolelinux. Due to lower hardware requirements and zero license costs, schools might get twice as many machines when buying new computers with Skolelinux.

Due to its stability, enterprise features and diskless workstation option, Skolelinux cuts the operating costs in half compared to any other desktop alternative in schools. The software is hand-picked by teachers and experts on computers in education. According to maintainers of 80.000 computers in Extramedura, Spain, the annual personnel costs to run a workstation is less than 50 Euro. We recommend centralized maintenance with Skolelinux, which might take 4-8 hours a week for 50-100 workstations and 320 users at a school. This could be reduced by centralised maintenance, due to the scalability of Skolelinux.

Some computer departments argue for a zero-maintenance policy in schools, stating that computers with proprietary systems don't need maintenance. Unfortunately such schools don't have any usable computers after a couple of weeks. When having 5-10 different students using a computer each day, it's just a matter of weeks or even days until proprietary software stops working - destructive students, malware or viruses making the machines useless. Manpower and enterprise configuration management are needed to restore such machines. An unmaintained Skolelinux system might work for a month or two. We have encountered schools running unmaintained Skolelinux for years.

Even if Skolelinux is stable when run on a solid network, it is unwise to skip maintenances. Skolelinux should be maintained professionally, even if it needs less maintenance than proprietary solutions according to school authorities. Regular maintenance of hardware, software and services is mandatory when providing safe and acceptable computer services in schools.

It's not enough getting hardware and a computer network installed in schools. There is also the question of educational use. A municipality needs to invest both in system maintenance and educational training. Teachers need training on how to include computers when teaching math, natural science, history and so forth. A major benefit with Skolelinux, is that low acquisition and maintenance costs free more of the budget for training teachers in computer literacy.

Going forward

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"It is easy to maintain. We have had a few startup problems, but surprisingly few", Monica Larssen, IT co-ordinator/ advisor in Harstad municipality says.

"After a few startup problems Skolelinux is now stable. It is very easy for me to maintain as a IT co-ordinator", says Astri Sletteng, IT co-ordinator at Ankenes and Håkvik school in Narvik municpality.

"We will most likely be able to reach the goals of The Knowledge Promotion Reform because of Skolelinux.", says principal Heidi Olsen Sværd at Håvik school in Narvik municipality.

About Skolelinux

Skolelinux is a complete software solution tailored to the needs of schools and other educational institutions. It provides a complete system, from the central server running all the services the school needs, to the desktop software students use in class. Skolelinux works out of the box, with no tricky setting up to perform. Skolelinux provides:

Skolelinux is the result of the work of the Debian Edu project. Debian Edu is an official part of Debian, and Skolelinux is a "Debian Pure Blend". It is installed at many or all of the schools in municipalities, regions and cities throughout Europe, Asia and South America. The most active developers are in Spain, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, France, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Thailand and Australia.

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Contact information

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For more information about Debian-Edu/Skolelinux please see our webpage at

Download:

Manual, most current version:

Manual, Translations: http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/

A complete list of improvements have been made available at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ReleaseNotes

A complete featurue list http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/Features