[Soci SLIP] Re: [Discussioni] Fwd: Debian Edu / Skolelinux Wheezy — a complete Linux solution for your school
loredana
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Dom 29 Set 2013 13:16:06 CEST
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Loredana
On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 12:19 +0200, Francesco Potortì wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:35:08 -0400
> From: David Prévot <taffit a debian.org>
> Subject: Debian Edu / Skolelinux Wheezy — a
> complete Linux solution for your school
> To: debian-news a lists.debian.org
> Reply-to: debian-edu a lists.debian.org
>
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> The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
> Debian Edu — a complete Linux solution for your school press a debian.org
> September 28th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its
> various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations and
> laptops which will work together on the school network. With Debian Edu,
> the teachers themselves or their technical support can roll out a
> complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within hours or a
> few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications pre-installed,
> but you can always add more packages from Debian.
>
> The Debian Edu developer team is happy to announce Debian Edu 7.1+edu0
> "Wheezy", the sixth Debian Edu / Skolelinux release, based on Debian 7
> (aka "Wheezy"), which has been updated and carefully improved compared
> to the previous Squeeze release while keeping its unique feature set and
> ease of maintainability.
>
> Some recent feedback:
>
> * Giorgio Pioda, system administrator, who is using Debian Edu at SPSE
> (Scuola per Sportivi d’Élite [1]) in Tenero, Switzerland (Cantone
> Ticino, Italian speaking part), says: "I can report that I'm on
> production with Debian Edu Wheezy since mid-August and it works rock
> solid, we are using it every day."
> * Nigel Barker, IT Coordinator at Hiroshima International School [2],
> Japan: "I was able to get a new Tjener and computer room ready for
> the new school year in only 4 days following the beta 1 release. I
> have been very happy with the way things have been running during
> the first month of school."
> * Lucas Nussbaum, Debian [3] Project Leader: "Debian Edu is a
> fantastic project, for at least two reasons. First, because it
> exposes a wider public, and specifically children, to Free Software
> and Debian. Second, because it demonstrates how one can build a
> successful distribution on top of Debian, while doing all the work
> inside Debian."
>
> 1: http://www.spse.ch/
> 2: http://www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp/
> 3: http://www.debian.org/
>
>
> About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
> - -------------------------------
>
> Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux [4], 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 to be added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-
> UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial
> installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines
> can be installed via the network. The provided school server provides an
> LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
> directories, a DHCP server, a web proxy and many other services. The
> desktop contains more than 60 educational software packages [5] and more
> besides are available from the Debian archive, and schools can choose
> between KDE Plasma, GNOME, LXDE and Xfce desktop environments.
>
> 4: http://www.skolelinux.org/
> 5: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html
>
>
> Full release notes and manual
> - -----------------------------
>
> Below the download URLs, there is a list of some of the new features of
> Debian Edu 7.1+edu0 "Wheezy". The full list is part of the manual. (See
> the English version on the wiki [6] and the manual translations
> installed on maintainer.skolelinux.org [7]).
>
> 6: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Features
> 7: http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/
>
>
> Where to get it
> - ---------------
>
> To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (655 MiB) you can use:
>
> * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-CD.iso
> * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-CD.iso
> * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-CD.iso
>
> The SHA1SUM of this image is: bebcb64d38e34e7c9f04db9f251a5e55bdb56670
>
> To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release (5.4 GiB) you can use:
>
> * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-USB.iso
> * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-USB.iso
> * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-USB.iso
>
> The SHA1SUM of this image is: a86ec62c06890dc0d32a82ebaca093e72b35e09c
>
>
> New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0 "Wheezy"
> - ---------------------------------------------
>
> These are the (shortened) release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
> 7.1+edu0, based on Debian 7.1 with codename "Wheezy".
>
> * New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see the
> installation manual [8] for more details.
> * The DVD image was dropped; instead we added a USB flash drive / Blu-
> ray Disc image, which behaves like the DVD image, but is too big to
> fit on a DVD.
>
> 8: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual
>
> Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy 7.1, e.g.: Linux kernel 3.2.x
> Desktop environments KDE Plasma 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, Xfce 4.8.6, and LXDE
> 0.5.5 (KDE Plasma is installed by default; to choose GNOME, Xfce or
> LXDE: see manual) Web browser Iceweasel 17 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 Debian Wheezy includes about
> 37000 packages available for installation. More information about Debian
> Wheezy 7.1 is provided in the release notes [9] and the installation
> manual [10].
>
> * Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These
> templates are now available in 29 languages.
> * The Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to German, French,
> Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist for Norwegian
> Bokmål and Spanish.
>
> 9: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes
> 10: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual
>
> * New Xfce desktop task.
> * LTSP diskless workstations run without any configuration.
>
> The source of the packages on the CD and USB stick ISO is available as a
> USB stick ISO (7.6 GiB). To download it you can use:
>
> * ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-source-USB.iso
> * http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-source-USB.iso
> * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-7.1+edu0-source-USB.iso
>
> The SHA1SUM of this image is: 1e926e49fdd1076f332c7c4abce3fb43049cddb7
>
>
> About Debian
> - ------------
>
> The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
> community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
> largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
> volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
> Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
> of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".
>
>
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>
> For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
> http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press a debian.org>.
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