openSUSE-Education

Beta 2 for openSUSE 11.0 is ready for testing

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:02:03 CET

http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0/

and

http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/ISOs/openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-11.0-Beta2a.iso

are ready for testing!

Luckily, I've neither tested the online repository nor the ISO image as I'm on vacation right now...

But http://bugs.opensuse-education.org/ is ready for your reports...

Known Bugs:

Koha: missing dependencies. I'm currently working to get 3.0 install like a charm
easy-ltsp: Beta2 contains easy-ltsp-0.5_080812 instead of the newer version. So if someone likes to test it, please download the current version from the buildservice.

Needed tests:

Is the root-Partition increased (10GB) if you add the Add on during the first installation? (BTW: Do we really need a /home-Partition here?)
Is it possible to install the ISO in an installed system?
all applications ok?
is the openSUSE-Education update repo added successfully during installation ?

Have a lot of fun!

Scheduled downtime on Wednesday and Thursday (Aug. 20. and 21.)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:39:10 CET

This is just to inform you that openSUSE-Education.org will be down next Wednesday and Thurtday for a hardware upgrade.

As we also plan to upgrade the system to 11.0, the scheduled downtime is a bit longer than for a normal hardware upgrade - but this should give us enough time to get all things up properly.

As result, the official online repositories will be down for this timeperiod. We apologise for the trouble caused.

With kind regards,
Your openSUSE-Education Team

Results Education Meeting 2008-08-12

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:58:02 CET

Hi Community!

Here's the summary of the IRC Meeting from Tuesday. The full transcript can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Education_Meeting_2008-08-12/transcript

1) Old action items

No news from Andreas, James, Jens-Daniel and Jordi. (not present at this time)

News from cyberorg: a) The LTSP Team has released the first "working" easy-ltsp packages for openSUSE and Fedora (see http://www.luckylemon.de/?p=32) .

b) LTSP5 now comes with real local application support, so schools that require resource heavy apps can now off load them to the client.

c) LTSP wiki pages are completely revamped - have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP !

d) Now also USB images and a Live-CDs are available, so Clients without PXE-Networkcards are able to boot LTSP!

News from anubisg1: a) Mr. Carugo from "DIDASCA Youniversity" (http://www.didascauniversity.it/) is giving us the chance to use an openSUSE dedicated server to use the "Didasca Webinar" for our meetings. Should be tested and documented during the next days.

b) Packages: a lot of packages for 11.0 are fixed now. So we are nearly ready for the next release Left to fix: gnome-chemicals-utils would be downgraded in the next days, netbeans has some wrong path entries for Ruby binaries and the update to Koha 3.0 needs some additional work.

c) The official online repository has some dependencies issues, which can be fixed by copying some additional packages from the openSUSE-FTP repository - so users just starting with the openSUSE- and the Education-DVD get no missing dependencies.

News from Lars: a) Gambas packaging is done and already announced (and used) in the german user forums.

b) Additional information about "how to create the Edu add on" is available in the openSUSE wiki (http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Development) and the used scripts are available for everyone in the SVN.

News from The_Code: a) Will be participating in the openSUSE Hackweek (http://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/07/announcing-hack-week-iii/) in Nuernberg.

b) Jan is interested to work on the planned YaST2-Education module - mail to jdsn about the current status is out.

2) Status of the wiki pages

a) No doubts against the "Education Packaging Policy" (http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Development#Education_Packaging_Policy) - so this policy is now implemented. The main target of this policy is to get as close as possible to the current openSUSE packages. So all Education packages are "ready for integration" if the decision about a big "contrib" community repository is done.

b) The Development page contains a simple changelog script, which is also available in the tools directory in SVN (called "vc" there). Just edit the "email" variable, and next time you only have to call "vc *.spec" in your package directory to get a valid changelog entry.

c) The template for application descriptions is updated with the new "age categories". People writing new application descriptions should use this template for educational applications: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Wiki#Template_for_Application_descriptions SLEducator will overhaul the wiki pages in the next weeks.

d) looks like the Software template has some problems with lists in special cases (see http://en.opensuse.org/Avogadro , "developers" for example). Needs to be investigated.

3) Status of the next Edu-DVD

a) FYI: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/test/11.0/ contains the "behind the released" repository - which might be inconsistent but the next official repository.

b) anubisg1 will do the dependency testing which should just cover the openSUSE-DVD + openSUSE-Education-Repo cases (only thing allowed is the Update-Repository as additional repository). So teachers who like to install the Education Add-on in their schools without internet access can install all packages.

c) The test repo shows a problem in the current sync scripts: moodle is avaible in 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 - looks like the version compare is sometimes buggy. Needs to be fixed in the next version.

d) anubisg1 has updated the Roadmap: http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Development/Edu-CD/Roadmap which needs the following two new entries:

Aug 17: Beta2 Release for 11.0
Sep 07: RC1 for 11.0

Deadline for packages: 2 days bevore the release - so it's always Friday

4) Q&A Section

a) anubisg1 announced the CIA-56 bot in the #opensuse-edu channel on freenode, which report subversion checkins.

b) anubisg1 also announced ldd2rpm - available in the SVN - which allows packagers to find fast BuildRequires of binaries and libs.

c) We should clean up the wishlist (http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Education) more regularly. Last cleanup was done by anubisg1 in the last days. The wishlist should be added as general topic to the meeting agenda.

d) AlbertoP informs us, that openfoam (a very advanced simulation code for fluid dynamics ) is a nice application for education - but currently the developers are moving to ubuntu and in general are not at all open in their development. He think it's worth to wait and see what they do before investing time on packaging their apps for openSUSE Education.

After nearly 2 hours, we decided to end the official meeting - unless the discussion goes on the whole day... ;-)

With kind regards,
Lars

Upcoming #opensuse-edu Meeting Tuesday 2008/08/12 19:00 CEST (17:00 GMT)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:19:34 CET

Hi all Education fans!

The next openSUSE-Education meeting will take place at the official #opensuse-edu IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-edu) on Tuesday

2008/08/12 19:00 CEST (17:00 UTC/GMT)

This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE-Education. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at:
http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Meetings/Education_Meeting_2008-08-12

Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well.

For general info about our IRC meetings read:

For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine.

The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ ;(not affiliated with openSUSE either).

Have a lot of fun ...

Lars (on behalf of the openSUSE-Education Team)

Slow traffic expected

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:49:43 CET

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!