Status of Debian Edu "Stretch"
Development started end of March.
- Use this image for testing:
http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso
(LTSP chroot installation will fail atm.)
Issues needing attention:
mirror redirector: http.debian.net -> httpredir.debian.org
default browser: iceweasel -> firefox(-esr)
squid renaming: squid3 -> squid
- new samba version: configuration changes
- autofs: disabling on main server fails, maybe use 'systemctl disable autofs' instead (cf)
- d-e-c/032-edu-pkgs: non-existing packages readahead and readahead-fedora should be dropped from purge list to enable LTSP chroot installation.
- LTSP generates squashfs image file automatically, this takes ages and needs a lot of disk space. A file like ../ltsp-build-client/Debian-custom/001-disable-squashfs-image containing one line: SQUASHFS_IMAGE="False" will prevent it.
- display manager: kdm is gone; after a default combi server installation sddm (w/ MATE as default session) shows up but doesn't allow login (no username field).
network interfaces: eth0 -> enp0s3, eth1 -> enp0s8 (VirtualBox environment), see: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ for more general information and how to disable this change.
- sddm: by default, all users (icons) are shown (after fixing network and autofs); default theme breeze can't be configured to show a username field.
- isc-dhcp-server: fails to work, variable INTERFACES in /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server has been split into INTERFACESv4 and INTERFACESv6 (cf).