Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.4 Release Candidate 3 is now available

We are very happy to announce "Debian Edu Squeeze 6.0.4 rc3", as we believe this is what we will release as r0 very
soon! See below for 6.0.4 r0 and 6.0.4 r1 release schedules!

Debian Edu aka Skolelinux is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a
completely configured school network. It contains setup for a school server, PXE booting for diskless machines,
setup for installing stationary workstations and setup for workstations that can be taken away from the school
network.

Several educational applications like celestia, drgeo, gcompris, geogebra, kalzium, kgeography solfege and
kgeography are included in the default desktop setup.

More information about Debian Edu is available at http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/en/debian-edu-
squeeze-manual.html#AboutDebianEdu - Please note that this manual has been translated to various languages.

Those who already are using rc1 or rc2 can upgrade to this version using apt-get upgrade. Users upgrading from
beta3 must make sure to keep the existing gosa.conf file for everything to keep working as expected when dpkg ask
how to handle the changed file during upgrade.

Complete download and installation instructions are available at http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-
doc/en/debian-edu-squeeze-manual.html#Installation

Read the "Getting Started" chapter of the manual to learn how to login for the first time.
http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/en/debian-edu-squeeze-manual.html#GettingStarted

Please file bugs on any issues you find, and (probably somewhat additionally) also mention those bugs and issues on
our status page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze

Testing and giving feedback to debian-edu@lists.debian.org or #debian-edu on irc.debian.org is a very good way to
start contributing! Act now :-D

If you can do more, give the manual linked to above some love. It needs it.

Release schedule:

2012-03-11: release Debian Edu (r0) Squeeze 6.0.4
2012-03-25: r0 rc1
2012-04-01: release Debian Edu (r1) Squeeze 6.0.4

We might decide to aim for March 31st for edu r1, if you don't take this serious ;-p

Changes compared to rc2 version

* Translation updates for the templates used in the installer. These templates are now available in 28
languages!
* Improved French and Danish language tasks.
* Added missing last entries in PXE boot menu. (BTS 661392)
* Correct Samba domain logon script for teachers.
* Add new Japanese translation of welcome web page.
* Documentation updates in the manual.

The following features are not working as they should

* The RDP server set up on thin-client-servers gives distorted KDE desktop at least when logging in using
rdesktop (#608195). This is a bug in the vnc4server package, and a workaround is to use the tigervnc server
instead..

To download this multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

* ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-CD.iso
* http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-CD.iso
* rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-CD.iso

To download this multiarch DVD release you can use

* ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-DVD.iso
* http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-DVD.iso
* rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-DVD.iso

To download the source DVD release you can use

* ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-source-DVD.iso
* http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-source-DVD.iso
* rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-source-DVD.iso

You can also download using one of the Skolelinux mirrors.

* ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/skolelinux/skolelinux-cd/
* http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/skolelinux/

The MD5SUM of these images are:

* e23bfb5fd025a71a29a29af5149e9501 debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-CD.iso
* 2a89b9b034b10a9b5c5ffaad6acd3476 debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-DVD.iso
* e628670e2b7cefa8f046d896de0e7660 debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-source-DVD.iso

The SHA1SUM of these images are:

* eced9f3c8f0257879edca77262ef3c411b29591d debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-CD.iso
* 9aa12ce78deb64638de6145110db56b924ead30d debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-DVD.iso
* c087d0c69da17b4a98a2966ff752fcfea8e30ec23 debian-edu-6.0.4+edurc3-source-DVD.iso

These sums are also available GPG signed at http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-rc/

How to report bugs: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs


cheers,
Holger