third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy

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Hi,

 

it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for short) of

Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy!

 

Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found we plan to

do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming weekend.

We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2, if you find

something, please notify is immediatly!

 

(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in another mail to

the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)

 

Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2 compared to

beta1:

 

- The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This

also gets Chromium to use this proxy.

- Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer

understand ical/dav sources.

- Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the

main server.

- A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.

- Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick

(6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug

(0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image

(3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).

 

Where to get it:

 

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

- ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso

- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso

- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-

CD.iso .

 

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f

 

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use

- ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso

- http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-

USB.iso

- rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-

USB.iso .

 

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e

 

The Source DVD image has the filename debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso

and the SHA1SUM 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the

same way as the other isos.

 

How to report bugs

 

For information how to report bugs please see

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

 

 

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

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 seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this is an

updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze release.

 

Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases

 

Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the versions of gosa

and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta release. Both alpha and

beta0 based installations should reinstall or deal with gosa.conf manually;

there are two options: (1) Keep gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on