11 Mar 2012 17:49
"Squeeze" based Debian Edu version released
Francesca Ciceri <madamezou <at> debian.org>
2012-03-11 16:49:01 GMT
2012-03-11 16:49:01 GMT
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ First "Squeeze" based Debian Edu version released press <at> debian.org March 11th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 11th, 2012 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, including: replacement of LWAT with GOsa² as the LDAP administration interface; updated artwork and new Debian Edu / Skolelinux logo; a new LXDE desktop option, in addition to KDE (default) and GNOME (LXDE and GNOME are available only with the CD installation method); faster LTSP client boot; improved handing of removable media on thin clients; a new roaming workstation profile for laptops; full Samba NT4 domain support for Windows XP/Vista/7; etc. The Debian Edu Team has also worked intensively on the documentation, improving and extending the manual which is now fully translated to(Continue reading)
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