a release aimed at educational institutions known as Debian Edu 10, also called . The distribution includes an integrated set of tools for rapid deployment in schools for both servers and workstations, supporting both stationary workstations in computer labs and portable systems. The releases are available in sizes of and .
Debian Edu is out of the box tailored for establishing computer labs based on diskless workstations and thin clients that boot over the network. The distribution offers several desktop environments, allowing the use of Debian Edu on both the latest PCs and older hardware. Available desktop environments include KDE Plasma, GNOME, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce. The base installation includes over 60 educational packages.
Key innovations:
- Transition to the Debian 10 "Buster" package base;
- Installation images are now distributed by the Debian project, rather than through third-party servers;
- Ability to create specific modular installations;
- Additional meta-packages have been added for grouping educational packages at the school level;
- Improved localization for all languages supported in Debian;
- A utility has been added to simplify the configuration of multilingual setups;
- Included is a system for managing accounts and passwords ;
- Enhanced support for TLS/SSL within the internal network;
- Added support for using Kerberos in NFS and SSH services;
- A tool for regenerating the LDAP database has been added;
- For all systems with the LTSP-Server profile, a terminal server installation is provided .
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