A release of Debian Edu 11, also known as Skolelinux, is being prepared for use in educational institutions. The distribution kit contains a set of tools integrated into one installation image for the rapid deployment of both servers and workstations in schools, while stationary workstations in computer labs and portable systems are supported. 438 MB and 5.8 GB assemblies have been prepared for download.
Debian Edu is adapted out of the box to organize computer classes based on diskless workstations and thin clients that boot over the network. The distribution provides several types of desktop environments that allow you to use Debian Edu on both the latest PCs and legacy hardware. The choice of working environments based on Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, MATE, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon and LXQt. The basic package contains more than 60 training packages.
Main innovations:
- Migration to the Debian 11 "Bullseye" package database has been made.
- Involved new release of LTSP to organize the work of diskless workstations. Thin clients work using the X2Go terminal server.
- For network boot, the LTSP-compatible iPXE package is used instead of PXELINUX.
- For iPXE installations, the graphical mode in the installer is used.
- The Samba package is configured to deploy standalone servers with SMB2/SMB3 support.
- Firefox ESR and Chromium searches use the DuckDuckGo service by default.
- Added utility to configure freeRADIUS with support for EAP-TTLS/PAP and PEAP-MSCHAPV2 methods.
- Improved tools for configuring a new system with a "Minimal" profile as a standalone gateway.
Source: opennet.ru