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| 2004-01-25 |
NEW • Development Release: Skolelinux pr45 |
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A new pre-release version of Skolelinux is available for download and testing. From the changelog: "Upgraded boot floppy to the latest version; upgraded from kernel 2.4.22 to 2.4.24; fixed several problems with LDAP bootstraping; included a new version of the slbackup webmin-module; included nagios host and service monitoring system on the CD; fixed typo in OpenLDAP translation file, to get rid of warning during install; security updates to cvs, netpbm-free and tcpdump." Download: skolelinux-i386-pr45.iso (647MB).
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| About Skolelinux
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| Skolelinux is the Debian-edu project's Custom Debian Distribution (CDD) in development. It is aiming to provide an out-of-the-box localised environment tailored for schools and universities. The out-of-the-box environment comes with 75 applications aimed at schools, as well as 15 network services pre-configured for a school environment. The simple, three-question installation requires minimal technical knowledge. Skolelinux is Debian, which means, among other things, that there are no license costs or worries, and that upgrade and maintenance of the software can be done over the Internet with the power of Debian's apt-get. The core goals of Skolelinux are localisation and ease of system administration.
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| 2013-04-26 |
Development Release: Skolelinux 7.0 Alpha 0 |
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Petter Reinholdtsen has announced the availability of the initial alpha build of Skolelinux (a project also known as "Debian-Edu"), a distribution designed for schools and based on the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0: "The Debian-Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made its first 'Wheezy'-based release today. This is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the 'Squeeze release'. Software updates: everything which is new in Debian 'Wheezy', including Linux kernel 3.2.x, KDE 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4 and LXDE 4 desktop environments (KDE is installed by default), Iceweasel web browser 10, LibreOffice 3.5.4, LTSP 5.4.2, GOsa 2.7.4, CUPS print system 1.5.3 GCompris educational toolbox 12.01, Rosegarden music creator 12.04, GIMP image editor 2.8.2, Celestia virtual universe 1.6.1, Stellarium virtual stargazer 0.11.3, Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and related links. Download: debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a0-CD.iso (651MB, MD5). |
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| 2012-03-12 |
Distribution Release: Skolelinux 6.0.4 |
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Petter Reinholdtsen has announced the release of Skolelinux 6.0.4, a Debian-based specialist distribution for schools, also known as "Debian Edu": "The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu 'Squeeze' 6.0.4+r0. Debian Edu (aka 'Skolelinux') is a Debian Pure Blend specifically targeted at schools and educational institutions, and provides a completely configured school network environment out of the box. It covers PXE installation, PXE booting for diskless machines, and setup for a school server, for stationary workstations, and for workstations that can be taken away from the school network. Several educational applications like Celestia, Dr. Geo, GCompris, GeoGebra, Kalzium, KGeography and Solfege are included in the default desktop setup. Besides including everything provided by the fourth update of Debian 'Squeeze' (6.0.4), this new release of Debian Edu introduces some interesting improvements." Continue reading the release announcement to learn more. Download the dual-arch (i386 + amd64) installation DVD image: debian-edu-6.0.4+r0-DVD.iso (4,486MB, SHA1).
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| 2010-10-25 |
Development Release: Skolelinux 6.0.0 Alpha 1 |
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Petter Reinholdtsen has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Skolelinux Linux 6.0.0, a distribution designed for schools and based on Debian "Squeeze": "This is the second test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this release is the thin clients and the diskless workstation setup. Changes compared to alpha 0 and 'Lenny' versions: everything from Debian 'Squeeze'; new version of Debian Installer; added code in the installer to select suggested profile combinations by default based on the detected environment; PXE boot setup now works when installing from the DVD; new tool notify-local-users to send desktop notification to all logged-in users on a machine; disable the idle job and user killer for roaming workstation profiles; remove all hard -oded settings on workstations." See the rest of the release announcement for full details. Download the multi-architecture installation DVD image from here: debian-edu-6.0.0+edua1-DVD.iso (4,478MB, MD5).
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| 2010-07-28 |
Development Release: Skolelinux 6.0 Alpha 0 |
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Petter Reinholdtsen has announced a test release for Skolelinux 6.0, a Debian-based distribution for schools also known as Debian-Edu: "This is the first test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this release is to test the user application selection. To have a look, install the standalone profile and let the developers know if the set of installed packages (i.e., applications) should be modified. If some user application is missing, or if there are some applications that no longer make sense to be included in Debian Edu, please let us know. Also, if a useful application is missing the translation for your language of choice, please let us know too. In addition, feedback and help to polish the desktop (menus, artwork, starters, etc.) are appreciated. We would like to ship a nice and handy KDE4 desktop targeted for schools out of the box." Read the full release announcement for additional details. Download the multi-architecture (i386 and amd64) installation DVD image from here: debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso (4,475MB, MD5).
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| 2010-02-10 |
Distribution Release: Skolelinux 5.0 |
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Holger Levsen has announced the release of Skolelinux 5.0, a Debian-based distribution for schools also known as "Debian Edu": "The Debian Edu team is proud to take the next step in making free software suitable for educational purposes by releasing Skolelinux 5.0. Skolelinux is based on Debian 5.0 'Lenny'. As usual, it comes with predefined installation profiles ranging from the main server to workstations and thin clients. It is supported and used by many regional and national projects, the most active ones being in Norway, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Taiwan and Japan. Skolelinux 5.0 uses kernel 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, and GNOME 2.22.2. This is first Debian Edu release which has been merged with the highly successful LinEx GNU/Linux educational project from the region of Extremadura in Spain." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5) the installation CD or DVD image from here: debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-CD.iso (610MB), debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-DVD.iso (4,480MB).
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| 2010-02-01 |
Development Release: Skolelinux 5.0 RC2 |
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Holger Levsen has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Skolelinux 5.0, a Debian-based distribution for schools also known as Debian-Edu: "I'm very happy to announce the second release candidate (rc2) of the Lenny-based Skolelinux version. Please test these images as much as you can and report back. Except for documentation and translation updates, this is intended to become the Lenny release. Here are the most notable changes since the last test release (rc1): updated manual and updated translations to German, Italian and Norwegian; updated translations of the installer for German, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese, Norwegian, French, Japanese and Czech; optimisations for running cfengine, resulting in a faster install; usplash is disabled on specific hardware where it is known to break...." Read the full release announcement for additional details. Download the multi-architecture (i386 and amd64) installation DVD image from here: debian-edu-lenny-dvd-rc2.iso (4,480MB, MD5).
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| 2007-12-06 |
Distribution Release: Skolelinux 3.0r1 |
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Holger Levsen has announced the availability of a maintenance release of Skolelinux 3.0, a Debian-based distribution tailored to schools and universities: "The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is proud to announce the 3.0r1 maintenance release. It includes more than 40 bug fixes and security updates that came to our attention after the 3.0r0 release. The most notable change is the much improved documentation, especially the Getting Started and Maintenance chapters are much more complete and cover everything which needs to be done to get started. The translations into German, Norwegian Bokmal and Italian (new) have been updated. Both HTML and PDF versions now include images, some localized, and provide internal document links. Important bugs have been fixed in the LDAP web-based Administration Tool. A load-balancing feature is included in the thin client system." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes. Download (MD5): debian-edu-...-3.0r1.iso (4,478MB).
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| 2007-07-22 |
Distribution Release: Skolelinux 3.0 |
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Skolelinux 3.0 "Terra" is available for free download: "This is a community release with comprehensive support from regional and national projects in Germany, Spain, France, Greece and Norway. The Skolelinux project is now a part of Debian under the name Debian-Edu. Several other projects have made additional functionality to Skolelinux tailored for national needs. Skolelinux now supports more than 50 countries. What's new in Skolelinux 3.0: based on Debian 4.0 "etch" and therefore compatible to LSB 3.1, using kernel 2.6.18 and KDE 3.5.5..." Read the release announcement for full details. Download: debian-edu-etch...3.0r0.iso (4,475MB, MD5). Terra is ready - "Now we celebrate, and start working on 3.0r1 and the Lenny based version."
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| 2007-07-19 |
Development Release: Skolelinux 3.0 RC5 |
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Petter Reinholdtsen announced the fifth release candidate of Skolelinux 3.0, a distribution also known as Debian-Edu Etch: "This is the fifth release candidate of debian-edu etch. After the release of rc4 there have been some new reports about critical bugs which were unknown before. Thanks to this testing there have also been fixes and changes made since rc4. Because of that, we like to present one more and hopefully the last release candidate. With this common test ground, we would like to ask you for doing all kind of final testing." See the release announcement for full details. Download: debian-edu-etch...rc5.iso (4,472MB, MD5).
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