<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Petter Reinholdtsen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">pere@hungry.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM<br>
Subject: Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.0 alpha1 test release<br>To: <a href="mailto:debian-edu-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-edu-announce@lists.debian.org</a>, <a href="mailto:debian-edu@lists.debian.org">debian-edu@lists.debian.org</a>, <a href="mailto:debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org</a><br>
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This is the second test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this<br>
release is the thin clients and the diskless workstation setup. Please<br>
install a thin client server, and make sure all programs in the KDE<br>
menu work on both thin clients and diskless workstations. Especially<br>
sound is important to test.<br>
<br>
It is also useful to check that the language specific set of packages<br>
installed for your language are sufficient and correct.<br>
<br>
The Gnome and LXDE desktop options (enabled by specifying desktop=gnome<br>
or desktop=lxde on the isolinux boot prompt) need more testing. Please<br>
let us know if the set of installed packages make sense for these<br>
environments.<br>
<br>
Changes compared to alpha0 and lenny version<br>
<br>
* Everything from Debian Squeeze<br>
+ New version of debian-installer<br>
* Added code in the installer to select suggested profile<br>
combinations by default based on the detected environment.<br>
* PXE boot setup now work when installing from the DVD.<br>
* New tool notify-local-users to send desktop notification to all<br>
logged in users on a machine. Useful for thin client servers.<br>
* Disable the idle job and user killer for roaming workstation<br>
profiles.<br>
* Remove all hard coded settings on workstations, and configure<br>
workstations and roaming workstations using settings detected from<br>
the environment using DNS, DHCP and LDAP.<br>
* Speed up LTSP client boot.<br>
* Correct the boot sequence settings on a main-server to ensure a<br>
more robust and correct boot.<br>
* Change SSL certificate name used by the LDAP server and adjust<br>
clients to use the new name to be able to enable certificate<br>
checking on clients.<br>
* Switch PowerDNS to use strict LDAP mode, to allow us to simplify<br>
the LDAP setup used for DNS.<br>
* Add link to <a href="http://linuxsignpost.org/" target="_blank">http://linuxsignpost.org/</a> on the start page shown to<br>
new users.<br>
* Simplify autofs LDAP rules to make sure they work with extra home<br>
directory partitions exported from the main-server without any<br>
changes.<br>
* Package changes<br>
+ Install Interactive geometry tool Geogebra version 3.2.42<br>
+ Add RDP server to the thin client server profile to provide a<br>
Linux desktop for Windows clients.<br>
+ Install openoffice.org-kde by default ensure OOo uses KDE file<br>
dialogs in KDE.<br>
+ Change video player setup to install different players in KDE<br>
(dragonplayer), Gnome (totem) and LXDE (totem).<br>
+ Change default package manager from adept to synaptic, to<br>
avoid getting two graphical package managers installed by<br>
default.<br>
+ Add the normal KDE tools freespacenotifier, kinfocenter,<br>
update-notifier-kde to the default KDE installation.<br>
+ Replace network-manager-kde with<br>
plasma-widget-networkmanagement in the standalone KDE profile<br>
+ Install usb-modeswitch on laptops to handle dual mode USB<br>
devices.<br>
+ Add cifs-utils to the default installation to ensure SMB<br>
mounting can work in any profile.<br>
+ Replace LWAT with GOsa as the LDAP administration interface.<br>
+ Dropped octave, gpscorrelate, qlandkartegt, viking, starplot,<br>
kig, kseg, luma, and valgrind from the default installation<br>
and the DVD to make room for higher priority packages.<br>
+ Drop libnss-mdns from stationary profiles, to make sure DNS is<br>
the authoritive source of host names.<br>
+ Drop gtick in the defaut installation, because it do not work<br>
on thin clients (BTS #566335<br>
<br>
The following features are not working as they should<br>
<br>
* LDAP administration is missing some features (netgroup, DNS and<br>
DHCP)<br>
* DVD and netinst CD installation do not install the same set of<br>
packages.<br>
<br>
To download this multiarch netinstall release you can use<br>
* <a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso</a><br>
* <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso" target="_blank">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso</a><br>
* rsync -avzP<br>
ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso<br>
<br>
To download this multiarch dvd release you can use<br>
* <a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso</a><br>
* <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso" target="_blank">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso</a><br>
* rsync -avzP<br>
ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso<br>
<br>
There is no source DVD available yet. It will be prepared when we get<br>
closer to the final release.<br>
<br>
You can also download using one of the Skolelinux mirrors.<br>
* <a href="ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/skolelinux/skolelinux-cd/" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/skolelinux/skolelinux-cd/</a><br>
* <a href="http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/skolelinux/" target="_blank">http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/skolelinux/</a><br>
<br>
The MD5SUM of these images are<br>
* 00eb69a9ed3a4bccd257240892416616 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso<br>
* 36a3ff4af6121c921135292ccc049c30 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso<br>
<br>
The SHA1SUM of these images are<br>
* 09bf80f6634043a5135fc1e062fe7b9cd1261344 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-CD.iso<br>
* d87b1be703abbababb4e15de5565b31208c5abf5 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso<br>
<br>
How to report bugs:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzilla" target="_blank">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzilla</a><br>
<br>
Happy hacking,<br>
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Petter Reinholdtsen<br>
One of the Debian Edu / Skolelinux developers<br>
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