Skolelinux / Debian Edu CD release notes

This is a summary of the changes done between releases. It should include info on what is working and what is broken. [:DebianEdu/HowTo/DoingTestReleases:?HowTo make test releases]

Debian-Edu/Skolelinux 3.0 codename terra (etch based)

Releases using Debian/Etch

Final release 3.0r1, 2007-12-05

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Security updates, see http://skolelinux.org/security/

The dvd ISO image is 4.4 GiB large. To download it, use either of these methods:

or for the netinstall cd you can download for i386

and for amd64

The powerpc port has not been tested as much as the other architectures, though it should work just fine and has been reported to work. Still, we consider the port an experimental release of Debian-Edu, which we might not be able to support as the other archs. Its available for download at

Final release 3.0r0, 2007-07-22

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Test Releases using Debian/Etch

These are older release candidates. some of these might still be found in our ftp archive. http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/old

Test release candidate 5, 2007-07-18

This is the fifth release candidate of debian-edu etch. After the release of rc4 there have been some new reports about critical bugs which were unknown before. Thanks to this testing there have also been fixes and changes made since rc4. Because of that, we like to present one more and hopefuly the last release candidate. With this common test ground, we would like to ask you for doing all kind of final testing. So please file bugs at http://bugs.skolelinux.org/ now, if you see any problems. We are especially interested in reports about upgrades from the sarge based version of Debian-Edu. If you do not have hardware available to test on, please have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestCDinstall for hints about to test without.

Please help to make Debian-Edu/Skolelinux 3.0 the best release ever by testing this release candidate and providing feedback of any kind to: debian-edu@lists.debian.org

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Some features are still not working as they should. We are aware of these at the moment and would like help finding a fix for it:

Test release candidate 4, 2007-07-08

This is the fourth release candidate of debian-edu etch. Even though it was planned to release the final version after rc3, it was decided to release (at least) one more release candidate. The reason for that is, that some critical bugs have been fixed and some new features and changes have been implemented. So please file bugs at http://bugs.skolelinux.org/ now, if you see any problems. If you do not have hardware available to test on, please have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestCDinstall to learn about ways to test without hardware.

Even if we did not hold the promise to release within 1.5 weeks after rc3, we still plan to release soon.

Highlights

Some features are still not working as they should. We are aware of these at the moment and would like help finding a fix for it:

Test release candidate 3, 2007-06-24

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Test release candidate 2, 2007-06-09

This is the second release candidate of debian-edu etch. We plan to release RC3 before the final release. So please file bugs at http://bugs.skolelinux.org/ now, if you see problems. Even if you dont have available hardware to test on, you can still help with testing in qemu. The url http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestCDinstall will help you get started.

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Test release candidate 1, 2007-05-20

The Debian-Edu/Skolelinux project is pleased to announce that the next test release of "Debian-Edu/Skolelinux 3.0, codename 'terra'" is ready. This is the fifth test release based on Debian/Etch. It is available to download using FTP, HTTP and rsync.

This is the first release candidate of debian-edu etch. After that we will release RC2 and RC3 with shorter delays in between and then we will release. So please file bugs at http://bugs.skolelinux.org/ now, if you see problems. Even if you dont have available hardware to test on, you can still help with testing in qemu. The url http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestCDinstall will help you get started.

test4 was one day late, so we shifted the release schedule: we now plan to release RC2 on May 27h, RC3 on June 3nd and Debian-Edu etch on June 10th. We might cut RC2 and RC3, as we want to release at the end of May.

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Test release 4, 2007-05-13

The Debian-Edu/Skolelinux project is pleased to announce that the next test release of "Debian-Edu/Skolelinux 3.0, codename 'terra'" is ready. This is the fourth test release based on Debian/Etch. It is available to download using FTP, HTTP and rsync.

This will be the last test-release of debian-edu etch. After that we will release RC1, RC2 and RC3 with shorter delays in between and then we will release. So please file bugs at http://bugs.skolelinux.org/ now, if you see problems. Even if you dont have available hardware to test on, you can still help with testing in qemu. The url http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/TestCDinstall will help you get started.

We plan to release RC1 on May 19th, RC2 on May 26th, RC3 on June 2nd and Debian-Edu etch on June 9th. We might cut RC2 and RC3, as we want to release at the end of May.

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Test release 3, 2007-04-21

The Debian-Edu/Skolelinux project is pleased to announce that the next test release of "Debian-Edu/Skolelinux 3.0, codename 'terra'" is ready. This is the third test release based on Debian/Etch. It is available to download using FTP, HTTP and rsync.

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Test release 2, 2006-11-23

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Some new features which are not yet fully working, but the framework is already in place:

Some features are still not working as they should. We are aware of these at the moment:

Test release 1, 2006-09-24

After months of hard work, a new Skolelinux CD image is ready. This is the first test CD preparing for a debian/etch based release. It is available from FTP, HTTP and rsync. The image size is 695 MiB.

There are a lot of changes since the last CD release based on Sarge. Here are some highlights

Some features are still not working as they should. We are aware of these at the moment:

Next developer meeting is tomorrow. More information available from [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Meeting]

Announcing new releases

New releases are sent to debian-edu at lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen at skolelinux.no, distro at distrowatch.com, admin-discuss at skolelinux.org, user at skolelinux.de, bruker at skolelinux.no and debian-edu-french at lists.debian.org.