The success of openSUSE-Education breaks our traffic limit!

We transfered over 1 TB of data this month, which is the current limit for our hoster. As result, the online repositories are a bit slow at the moment, but still available. Note: This doesn't affect the ISO images, as they are already hosted on ftp.suse.com.

We're working on a solution with the openSUSE Board to get things up and running as expected again, but this will take about a week or two.

So please stay tuned!

Good things come to those who wait: I think we’ve waited long enough to release the first openSUSE-Education version for openSUSE 10.3.

Just use the YaST2 “Add-On Product” module to add our Online-Repository. A more detailed description can be found at the openSUSE wiki.

For those without permanent Internet connection, we’ve created a DVD ISO which can be downloaded here:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/education/openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3.iso (3,7GB)

To give new users a hint how to install the DVD, we’ve created PDFs in english, german and italian language containing all needed information and in addition some descriptions for LTSP, GCompris, iTalc and Tuxpaint. We want to reuse existing wiki articles for this in 11.0 and add these descriptions also to the Helpcenter. The PDFs are also available in the documentation directory of the DVD.

To get nearly all bugs fixed, we decided to release another Release Candidate for openSUSE 10.3 containing a lot of bugfixes and some small updates:

• galculator: Update to 1.3.1
• goffice: update to 0.6.3
• italc: update to 1.0.9-rc2 (1.0.8.992) containing a lot of fixes
• wxMaxima: update to 0.7.5
• gambas2: update to 2.6.0
• KIWI-LTSP update to 0.3.16 (Mount of local device now properly shows up on users' desktop)
• gcompris: update to 8.4.5
• pysycache: fix ownership in /var/games directory
• tuxmath: update to 1.6.3
• celestia: update to 1.5.1
• mopac7: update to 1.13
• geonext: fixed executable rights of startup script
• vym: update to 1.12.0 with russian translation

The ChangeLog gives a complete overview.

An initial german and english installation manual is now also available. This manual is written in DocBook and uses the Lessons for Lizards style. The manuals are available in the documentation directory on the media.

The ISO images can be found here:

• openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-RC4.iso
• openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-RC4-SOURCES.iso =>This media just contains the source rpms.

The Online-Repository is also up to date.

Please report errors in our Bugtracker here on openSUSE-Education. Thanks!

Andreas has designed a new logo for openSUSE Education.

The design of the new Logo is simpler and reduced to the two basic key elements:

• the chameleon for openSUSE and
• the doctoral cap as symbol for Education.

The new design of the logo is easier to keep in mind and easily replicated by a line drawing.

Jan Weber has been approved for the "LTSP GUI Management for openSUSE" Project! Congratulations!

His mentor, Jigish Gohil, is already the leader behind the LTSP Project of openSUSE.

The goal of this project is providing a GUI for setting up and managing LTSP.It will support Server configuration and building of Thin Client images.

• Thin Client configuration will also be possible within the application.
• Monitoring of client logs is also possible threw the UI.

All configuration (Server and Thin Clients) can be exported in an XML file, for backup or setting up an additional Server.More Information is available in the openSuse Wiki.

The Project will use the Novell Forge infrastructure for SVN and the Developer-Wiki.