See also http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Wheezy for the more detailed status.
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Subject: Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released 2013-0X-XX
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 bring 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.
Other changes
Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
- Source DVD available.
- Single arch i386 DVD available.
- Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.
- Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf question 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.
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
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso
http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .
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
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso
http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .
The MD5SUM of this image is: n/a
The SHA1SUM of this image is: n/a
To download the i386 DVD release you can use
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-i386-DVD.iso
http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-i386-DVD.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-i386-DVD.iso .
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
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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
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso
http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .
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
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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
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso
http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso
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
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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.
More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the release notes and the installation manual.
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.
LDAP related changes
- 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
ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a0-CD.iso
http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a0-CD.iso
- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a0-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a0-CD.iso
The MD5SUM of this image is:
- c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c
The SHA1SUM of this image is:
- 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2