Differences between revisions 128 and 129
Revision 128 as of 2013-09-26 06:39:16
Size: 39654
Editor: ?PetterReinholdtsen
Comment: Mention that this no longer is the authorative souce.
Revision 129 as of 2014-04-01 09:39:05
Size: 46631
Editor: ?MikeGabriel
Comment:
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 20: Line 20:

== IN PREPARATION!!! Subject: Seventh Wheezy based Debian Edu version released ==

The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu Wheezy 7.4+edu1.

Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations and laptops which will work together on the school network. With Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.

The Debian Edu developer team is happy to announce Debian Edu 7.4+edu1 "Wheezy", the seventh Debian Edu / Skolelinux release based on Debian 7 (aka "Wheezy").

For those who want to give Debian Edu Wheezy a try, [[http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/en/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html#Installation|complete download and installation instructions]] are available, including detailed instructions in the [[http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/en/debian-edu-squeeze-manual.html#GettingStarted|Getting Started chapter of the manual]] explaining the first steps, such as setting up a network or adding users.

Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week? Check out Debian Edu Wheezy!

Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world, mostly in Germany and Norway.

== About Debian Edu and Skolelinux ==

[[http://www.skolelinux.org/|Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux]], is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains [[http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html|more than 60 educational software packages]] and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

== Full release notes and manual ==

Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features and bugfixes of Debian Edu 7.4+edu1 "Wheezy". The full list is part of the manual. (See [[https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Features]]) for the English version and [[http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/]] for the manual translations installed on maintainer.skolelinux.org).

=== Where to get it ===

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (FIXME: XXX MiB) you can use

 * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-CD.iso
 * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-CD.iso
 * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-CD.iso .

The SHA1SUM of this image is: FIXME: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release (FIXME: X.X GiB) you can use

 * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-USB.iso
 * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-USB.iso
 * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-USB.iso .

The SHA1SUM of this image is: FIXME: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

== New features for Debian Edu 7.4+edu1 "Wheezy" released 2014-04-XX ==

These are the (shortened) release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.4+edu1, based on Debian 7.4 with codename "Wheezy".

=== Installation changes ===

 * FIXME: New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see [[http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual|installation manual]] for more details.
 * The DVD image was already dropped for Debian Edu Wheezy 7.1+ed0, instead we added a USB flash drive / Blue-ray disc image, which behaves like the DVD image, but is too big to fit on a DVD.

=== Software updates ===

 * Everything which has been updated in Debian Wheezy 7.4 (since Debian Wheezy 7.1), e.g.:
   * FIXME: Web browser Iceweasel 17 ESR
   * FIXME: New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see [[http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual|installation manual]] for more details.
   * FIXME: WHAT ELSE???
   * Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for installation.
   * More information about Debian Wheezy 7.1 is provided in the [[http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes|release notes]] and the [[http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual|installation manual]].

=== Fixed bugs ===

 * This release of Debian Edu Wheezy fixes several known problems:
   * FIXME: add closed bugs here(?)

=== Documentation and translation updates ===
 
 * FIXME: Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These templates are now available in 29 languages.
 * FIXME: some Chinese D-I translation fixes (by Franklin and Petter)
 * The Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.

=== Other changes ===

 * FIXME: any?

=== How to report bugs ===

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

=== Where to get the sources ===

The source of the packages on the CD and USB stick ISO is available as a USB stick ISO (7.6G iB). To download it you can use

 * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-source-USB.iso
 * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-source-USB.iso
 * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.4+edu1-source-USB.iso .

The SHA1SUM of this image is: FIXME: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

== About Debian ==

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the
universal operating system.

Contact Information
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to press@debian.org.


----
Line 116: Line 216:

See also http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Wheezy for the more detailed status.


/!\ The release announcement text is now moved to http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/publicity/announcements/en/2013/20130928.wml?view=markup for translation and final publication.

For English-only release announcements, the announcement mails go to...

English-only -- To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) skolelinux.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

For translated announcements, the translated announcement mails are sent to these recipients...

English -- To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

Bokmal/Norway -- To: linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, styret (at) skolelinux.no, annonsering (at) nuug.no, pressemelding (at) nuug.no

German -- To: user (at) skolelinux.de

French -- To: debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org

IN PREPARATION!!! Subject: Seventh Wheezy based Debian Edu version released

The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu Wheezy 7.4+edu1.

Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations and laptops which will work together on the school network. With Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.

The Debian Edu developer team is happy to announce Debian Edu 7.4+edu1 "Wheezy", the seventh Debian Edu / Skolelinux release based on Debian 7 (aka "Wheezy").

For those who want to give Debian Edu Wheezy a try, complete download and installation instructions are available, including detailed instructions in the Getting Started chapter of the manual explaining the first steps, such as setting up a network or adding users.

Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week? Check out Debian Edu Wheezy!

Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world, mostly in Germany and Norway.

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

Full release notes and manual

Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features and bugfixes of Debian Edu 7.4+edu1 "Wheezy". The full list is part of the manual. (See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Features) for the English version and http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/ for the manual translations installed on maintainer.skolelinux.org).

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (FIXME: XXX MiB) you can use

The SHA1SUM of this image is: FIXME: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release (FIXME: X.X GiB) you can use

The SHA1SUM of this image is: FIXME: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

New features for Debian Edu 7.4+edu1 "Wheezy" released 2014-04-XX

These are the (shortened) release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.4+edu1, based on Debian 7.4 with codename "Wheezy".

Installation changes

  • FIXME: New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see installation manual for more details.

  • The DVD image was already dropped for Debian Edu Wheezy 7.1+ed0, instead we added a USB flash drive / Blue-ray disc image, which behaves like the DVD image, but is too big to fit on a DVD.

Software updates

  • Everything which has been updated in Debian Wheezy 7.4 (since Debian Wheezy 7.1), e.g.:
    • FIXME: Web browser Iceweasel 17 ESR
    • FIXME: New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see installation manual for more details.

    • FIXME: WHAT ELSE???
    • Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for installation.
    • More information about Debian Wheezy 7.1 is provided in the release notes and the installation manual.

Fixed bugs

  • This release of Debian Edu Wheezy fixes several known problems:
    • FIXME: add closed bugs here(?)

Documentation and translation updates

  • FIXME: Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These templates are now available in 29 languages.
  • FIXME: some Chinese D-I translation fixes (by Franklin and Petter)
  • The Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.

Other changes

  • FIXME: any?

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

Where to get the sources

The source of the packages on the CD and USB stick ISO is available as a USB stick ISO (7.6G iB). To download it you can use

The SHA1SUM of this image is: FIXME: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

About Debian

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal operating system.

Contact Information For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to press@debian.org.


Subject: Skolelinux/Debian Edu Wheezy - a complete Linux solution for your school

Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations and laptops which will work together on the school network. With Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.

The Debian Edu developer team is happy to announce Debian Edu 7.1+edu0 "Wheezy", the sixth Debian Edu / Skolelinux release based on Debian 7 (aka "Wheezy"), which has been updated and carefully improved compared to the previous Squeeze release while keeping its unique feature set and ease of maintainability.

Some recent feedback:

Giorgio Pioda, System administrator, who is using Debian Edu at SPSE (Scuola per Sportivi di Elite) in Tenero, Switzerland (Cantone Ticino, Italian speaking part), says: "I can report that I'm on production with Debian Edu Wheezy since mid august and it works rock solid, we are using it every day."

Nigel Barker, IT Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan: "I was able to get a new Tjener and computer room ready for the new school year in only 4 days following the beta 1 release. I have been very happy with the way things have been running during the first month of school."

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

Full release notes and manual

Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features of Debian Edu 7.1+edu0 "Wheezy". The full list is part of the manual. (See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Features) for the English version and http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/ for the manual translations installed on maintainer.skolelinux.org).

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (655 MiB) you can use

The SHA1SUM of this image is: bebcb64d38e34e7c9f04db9f251a5e55bdb56670

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release (5.4 GiB) you can use

The SHA1SUM of this image is: a86ec62c06890dc0d32a82ebaca093e72b35e09c

New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0 "Wheezy" released 2013-09-21

These are the (shortened) release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1+edu0, based on Debian 7.1 with codename "Wheezy".

Installation changes

  • New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see installation manual for more details.

  • The DVD image was dropped, instead we added a USB flash drive / Blue-ray disc image, which behaves like the DVD image, but is too big to fit on a DVD.

Software updates

  • Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy 7.1, eg:
    • Linux kernel 3.2.x
    • Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, Xfce 4.8.6, and LXDE 0.5.5 (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME, Xfce or LXDE: see manual.)
    • Web browser Iceweasel 17 ESR
    • LibreOffice 3.5.4

    • LTSP 5.4.2
    • GOsa 2.7.4
    • CUPS print system 1.5.3
    • Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01
    • Music creator Rosegarden 12.04
    • Image editor Gimp 2.8.2
    • Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1
    • Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3
    • Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6
    • New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see installation manual for more details.

    • Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for installation.

Documentation and translation updates

  • Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These templates are now available in 29 languages.
  • The Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.

Other changes

  • New Xfce desktop task.
  • LTSP diskless workstations run without any configuration.

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

Where to get the sources

The source of the packages on the CD and USB stick ISO is available as a USB stick ISO (7.6G iB). To download it you can use

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 1e926e49fdd1076f332c7c4abce3fb43049cddb7


Subject: Third beta release (beta 2) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2 released 2013-09-XX

These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1+edu0~b2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

/!\ Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home directory.

Software updates

  • Adjust KDE proxy setup to use the provided wpad.dat. This also gets Chromium to use this proxy.
  • Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer understand ical/dav sources.
  • Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).

Other changes

  • Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the main server.
  • a source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.

Known issues

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: n/a

The SHA1SUM of this image is: n/a

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: n/a

The SHA1SUM of this image is: n/a

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) skolelinux.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

Subject: Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22

These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

/!\ Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home directory.

Software updates

  • Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh work also without a attached tty.
  • Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found' has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access required).

Other changes

  • Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool needed for desktop=xfce installations.
  • Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB stick ISO image.
  • Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).
  • Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.
  • Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to cope with this.
  • Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².
  • Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid empty password hashes.
  • Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines from joining the Samba domain.

Known issues

  • KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to not use the http proxy as it should.
  • Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop (using the KDE configuration).

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b

The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) skolelinux.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

Subject: First beta release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b0 released 2013-07-27

These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1+edu0~b0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

This is the fifth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

/!\ Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta release.

Software updates

  • Switched roaming workstation profiles from wicd to network-manager for network configuration, as wicd didn't work any more.
  • Changed version numbers of patched gosa and libpam-mklocaluser packages to make sure our locally patched versions will be replaced by the official packages when they are released from Debian. Those installing alpha version need to reinstall or manually downgrade gosa and libpam-mklocaluser.
  • Added bluetooth tools to the default desktop (bluedevil, blueman).
  • Added tools for sharing the desktop on KDE (krdc, krfb).
  • Added valgrind to the default installation for easier debugging of crash bugs.

Other changes

  • Fixed artwork package to work with gnome, no longer break desktop=gnome installations.
  • Adjusted installer to now work when forced to use a proxy with the netinst CD.
  • Fixed code detecting and setting/loading hardware specific setup/firmware to work more robust out of the box.
  • Adjusted Kerberos setup to detect realm and server settings at install time instead of dynamically at run time. This avoid a crash with krb5-auth-dialog on diskless workstations without a DNS name.
  • Worked around misfeature in network-manager not calling the dhclient exit hooks, causing automatic proxy configuration and automatic host name setting at run time to work again.
  • Fixed feature setting the default Iceweasel start page from URL fetched from LDAP, to allow schools to set the global default by updating the dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no LDAP object.
  • Changed default host name on all networked machines to be unique (generated from MAC or reverse DNS) after boot.
  • Adjusted partition sizes to make sure they are big enough.

Known issues

  • Grub is missing the new artwork.
  • KDE fail to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to not use the http proxy as it should.
  • Chromium also fail to use the proxy.

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 55d5de9765b6dccd5d9ec33cf1a07109

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 996a1d9517740e4d627d100de2d12b23dd545a3f

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: d8f0818c51a78d357de794066f289f69

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 49185ca354e8d0543240423746924f76a6cee733

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) skolelinux.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

Subject: Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released 2013-07-03

These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

Software updates

  • Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.
  • Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian submenu. It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this brings KDE in line with the others.
  • Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as they don't have a desktop menu entry and thus won't show up in the menu now that menu-xdg was removed.
  • Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users too.
  • Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy are too few to make the package useful.

Other changes

  • Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy

  • Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.
  • Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed up for some language options.
  • Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.
  • Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.
  • Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way d-i is doing it.
  • Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.
  • Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.
  • Update system to install needed firmware packages during installation, to work properly in Wheezy.
  • Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).
  • Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.
  • LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.

Known issues

  • No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available yet (698840).

  • Artwork not enabled for all desktops.

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) skolelinux.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

Subject: Third alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released 2013-06-10

This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

Software updates

  • Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
  • Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703).
  • Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
  • Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
  • Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.

Other changes

  • The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used.
  • Updated translation of the installation.
  • New Romanian translation.
  • Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
  • Fix roaming workstation setup (706753).

  • Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
  • New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
  • Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
  • More testsuite tests.
  • Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
  • Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
  • Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with LTSP in Wheezy.
  • Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set them up with GOsa².
  • Update IMAP server setup.
  • Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (700257).

Known issues

  • DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.
  • No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available yet (698840).

  • Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).
  • KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (502192). This will remain unfixed.

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178

The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) friprogramvareiskolen.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com

Subject: Second alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released 2013-05-14

This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu alpha1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network.

This is the first test release based on Debian 7.0 "Wheezy", released on 2013-05-04. Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

Software updates

  • Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by default.
  • Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.
  • Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.
  • Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on ibus-anthy.

Other changes

  • Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and reliability improvements.
  • Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because of 706434.

  • Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible problems.
  • Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus direct:// URL.
  • Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.
  • Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.
  • Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.
  • Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client servers, to make room for all the software installed.
  • Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to log in (706753).

Known issues

  • IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address (705900). Only install libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.

  • DVD images are not yet ready.
  • No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available yet (698840).

  • Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).
  • KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.
  • LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.
  • Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to password submission problem (700257).

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, user (at) skolelinux.de, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) friprogramvareiskolen.no, press (at) debian.org, distro at distrowatch.com

Subject: First alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy

New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released 2013-04-26

This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0 edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network. Immediately after installation a school server running all services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be installed via the network.

This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

Software updates

  • Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
    • Linux kernel 3.2.x
    • Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 0.5.5 (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see manual.)
    • Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR
    • LibreOffice 3.5.4

    • LTSP 5.4.2
    • GOsa 2.7.4
    • CUPS print system 1.5.3
    • Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01
    • Music creator Rosegarden 12.04
    • Image editor Gimp 2.8.2
    • Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1
    • Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3
    • Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6
    • New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see installation manual for more details.

    • Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for installation.

Documentation

  • The (English) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.

  • Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.

Other changes

  • LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an entry in lts.conf or LDAP.
  • GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.

Regressions

  • No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available yet.

No updated artwork

  • Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we had for our Squeeze based release.

Where to get it

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

The MD5SUM of this image is:

  • c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c

The SHA1SUM of this image is:

  • 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2

How to report bugs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs