Status of Debian Edu "Buster"

(development started in July 2017)

Installation

A Debian Edu ISO for 64-bit PCs (both AMD and Intel processors) is available from the usual Debian places:

Instead of the default xfce, mate, gnome or kde could be used as value of the related kernel param desktop=xfce. See the Buster manual installation chapter how to set kernel command line parameters.

Please note:
Squid needs to be started manually after reboots due to 911325
As long as Firefox-ESR 60.x isn't in buster, the automatic proxy configuration via wpad.dat won't work; this is due to d-e-c/git commit 07a80fc1f766 (the new lock mechanism doesn't work for version 52.9.0esr-1).

Known problems we want to fix

Other issues


Fixed in Git

Fixed + done (related packages migrated to buster or unstable)

cp /etc/gosa/gosa.conf.orig /etc/gosa/gosa.conf
cat /dev/null > /etc/gosa/gosa.secrets
service apache2 reload

Please note that this change disables gosa-admin password encryption (GOsa² -> LDAP connection); the generated (random) password is used in this case.

rm /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load 
cp /etc/apache2/mods-available/status.load /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load 
sed -i 's/status/userdir/g' /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load 
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load /etc/apache2/mods-available/debian-edu-userdir.load 
a2enmod debian-edu-userdir