The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up today. This is the release announcement:
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 (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
- 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 (Closed in slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly entered password).
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 (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager: missing import feature).
- Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).
- KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents own icon names instead of using existing). 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
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