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:
Full support for Thin clients, ?LowFat clients, Workstations and Laptops. With ?LowFat clients (diskless) users got full PC functionality with extremely low maintenance cost. ?LowFat clients gives full support for sound, video, USB memory stick's and DVDs.
Skolelinux now got more than 80 applications selected for pedagogic uses, supporting more than 50 languages. Many new applications are introduced in addition to popular classic as GCompris, KDE-Edu, Iceweasel (Firefox) and OpenOffice.org.
- Source Code for all software are now distributed on one DVD now supporting three different processor platforms as i386, Power and AMD64. This makes it more easy to choose hardware, and to study the recipes behind the software. Those with interest got the freedom to learn, participate and share knowledge. Installation CDs are also available, but requires a working Internet connection for installation.
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" RodrÃguez <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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