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. 

Parallel to the openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3 release, we are currently working on other projects. Here is the overview:

The URL*http://education.opensuse.org/ has been applied for us. http://en.opensuse.org/Education will be reachable at the above URL in a few days.

• http://www.opensuse-education.org/ will get a "Face lift" in a few weeks. The new Design will look more like the official openSUSE-Layout. Help is needed! Any webdesigner (we need somebody knowing YaML) around?
• As far as the RC2 is concerned, there are only a few Bugs left to take care of. Hopefully they will get fixed soon. Everybody who has some wishes left, please fill them in our bugzilla.
• At the moment the automatic package selection during first installation is deactivated. This is the result of a newer package "bc" on the Education media. A bug in the 10.3 installer doesn't find the right solution and so no pattern (and no package) is preselected. The online repository is already fixed - in the final media all packets will be selected automatically, too. (see bug #0000029)
• The patterns will see some rework prior to release but they already demonstrate functionality in their current form.
• Lars has talks with Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann about his “Seminarix” to provide Seminarix on openSUSE.
• There are new packets in the Buildservice Repository:
  • Score Reading Trainer
  • ksociograma
  • gbrainy
  As a result of a short talk in IRC (thanks to kkirill!), packagers adding new packages to the obs repository should also start a new wiki page. We've created a new template.
• The work on the Wiki is moving ahead as well. We have updated the list of desktop applications. It now contains all currently available applications. Additionally we want to use "Categories" to assign applications to a group automatically. Feel free to make suggestions! Currently you can find all applications with their descriptions in the Category: Education Applications.
  We can provide more than one Category for each application. So an application can be in "Category:Education Applications" and also in "Category:Music" and/or "Category:Artistic scope"...

With RC2 we'll start the last testing phase before we release the final version of openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE 10.3. At this point, we'll just fix the current packages and work on the documentation.

In opposition to the normal release workflow, we updated many packages and even added new ones to the media. Below is an incomplete list of changes with this release:

• all KDE4 packages are updated to 4.0.3
• For the first time, we've LTSP 5 packages (and a pattern)! Many thanks to cyberorg and kiw: now you can easily install a n openSUSE terminalserver!
• NetBeans 6.0.1 was added
• Gambas2 and Tipp10 as well
• With Phun we now have a funny 2D physics sandbox
  
• and with k3dsurf a program to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions.
• iTALC was updated to 1.0.7 and adapted to integrate better in openSUSE
• with wine-doors it should be much easier to install Windows Software on openSUSE
• tuxpaint (incl. tuxpaint-config and tuxpaint-stamps) made an update leap
• Additional packages with new versions:
• clisp
• chemtool
• childsplay-languagepacks
• dansguardian
• fbreader
  
• galculator
• gcalctool
• gcompris
• geogebra
• kding
• kseg
• pauker
• MultiplicationStation
• moodle
• semantik

A detailed changelog can be found here.

As a result of the size, we decided to ship three ISO images instead of one:

• openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-i386-RC2.iso => for (normal) 32bit PCs
• openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-x86_64-RC2.iso =>for 64bit PCs
• openSUSE-Education-1.0-for-10.3-SOURCES-RC2.iso => contains the source RPMs (if you don't know what this means, you don't need it

You can find the ISO images in our download directory and also on the SUSE FTP-Server. But you can also add our Online-Repostiory as add on source via the YaST2 Add-on Module. Just use the URL: 

http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/10.3/ 

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

Now you can watch the presentation of Linkat online at

  http://tube.opensuse.org/

Have a lot of fun!