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 * 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. If something has been stripped down to rigidly, please complain.  * 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.

New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0+r0 Codename "Wheezy" released 2013-??-??

First test release, 7.0.0 edu alpha0, 2013-??-??

To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (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

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 and GNOME 3.4
    • Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR
    • LibreOffice 3.5.4

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

    • Debian Wheezy includes over 10,000 new packages available for installation, including the Chromium browser

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 -- ore 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.