THIS IS A DRAFT UNTIL SKOLELINUX 3.0 IS RELEASED

Skolelinux 3.0 Terra available for free download!

* Oslo - July 20, 2007

Skolelinux 3.0 is ready. This is an community release with comprehensive support from regional and national projects in Germany, Spain, France, Greece and Norway. The project is now a part of Debian. Several projects has made additional functionality to Skolelinux tailored for national needs. Skolelinux now supports 50 countries.

Whats new in Skolelinux 3.0:

About Skolelinux

Skolelinux is the Debian Edu project's Custom Debian Distribution. It is installed in hundreds of schools in Norway, Germany, France and other countries. Municipalities and Commercial Service Providers run Skolelinux across multiple schools, operated and maintained centrally. Service providers report that low-fat workstations require half the maintenance cost of other desktop alternatives.

The next milestone of Skolelinux development will be to merge the Debian-based LinEx distro into Debian Edu[2]. Currently LinEx is used by more than 250,000 students and public employees in the region of Extremadura in Spain.

New technology

LowFat clients is also known as Diskless workstations. They run applications locally on the client. All software comes from the server instead of locally from the client hard drive. Recommended minimum requirement for client machines is > 256 MB RAM and 800 MHz CPU. Skolelinux now got improved tools for system survailance and maintenence.

Roadmap for next merging of LinEx and Debian Edu http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/LinEx2DebianEdu-Roadmap

Please note that the documentation for the etch release is only available in English at the moment (FIXME: spanish, norwegian bokmal?) and contains some rough edges. We considered releasing before the end of the summer holidays more important and we will fix those rough edges in the coming weeks, when we also expect more translations to show. Those fixes will be included in the upcoming 3.0 r1 release.

Contacts:

General
debian-edu AT lists.debian.org
Norway

Knut Yrvin <knuty AT skolelinux.no>

  • +47 908 95 765
Germany

Kurt Gramlich <kurt AT skolelinux.de>

Spain

José "L. Redrejo" Rodríguez <jredrejo AT edu.juntaextremadura.net>

France

Thierry Stauder <thierry AT skolelinux.fr>

Pakistan

Tariq Farooqi <tariq AT linuxpakistan.net>

  • +92-21-6622134

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