Copyright © 2007 openSUSE Education Team
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This is just the initial version of the release notes for openSUSE Education 1.0 for 10.2. The release notes are under constant development. Download the newest version as part of the Internet test or refer to http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/relnotes/1.0/10.2/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html.
These release notes cover the following areas:
General: Information that everybody should read.
Technical: This section contains a number of technical changes and enhancements for the experienced user.
We tested this add-on media with the official openSUSE 10.2 DVD9 as base product. This official DVD9 contains about 8.5 GB software for ix86 and x86_64 computers and can be bought at http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/index.html. If you've downloaded the free version from http://software.opensuse.org/, you probably need to install additional packages available in the online repositories (have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories to see how to add these repositories).
Find more informations about the packages on the media in the openSUSE wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Applications.
We've tried to order the packages in age groups and areas of applications to make the overview easier.
As we are an "online community" , we use many forms of online communitcation to help other users, coordinate our work or just talk about the latest interesting things for education.
Have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Communicating to get in touch with us.
We are a very young and small community and it could be possible that we overlook a fault in one of the hundred packages we have to create and maintain for the different distributions and architectures. If you find a fault in one of our packages, please inform us - so we can fix it. You can use one of the possible communication forms above or enter a bug directly in our bugtracking system.
openSUSE Education has it's own bugtracking system for failures in packages or online repositories: http://bugs.opensuse-education.org/. Please report all bugs you encounter using this Release of openSUSE Education 1.0 for 10.2 in the openSUSE Education Bugzilla http://bugs.opensuse-education.org/.
The source RPMs for "openSUSE Education packages" are available at http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repos/ and the medium himself.
Support for all languages is available on the medium.
As we inlcuded some KDE4 applications for openSUSE 10.2, we must install avahi. But openSUSE 10.2 uses mDNSresponder as default, our avahi obsoletes the original mDNSresponder. KDE3 applications would not run with avahi as the support for avahi is not enabled in openSUSE 10.2. But this only affects the bonjour functionality - and we decided that this is acceptable.
If you want full bonjour support on openSUSE 10.2 for your old applications, you have to deinstall avahi and install mDNSresponder instead. This would break the new KDE4 applications - so you have to solve their dependencies manually.
Sorry, but we have not enough time and knowledge to find a better solution.
Additional lessons for pauker can be found in the pauker-lessons package. The lessons are installed in the directory /usr/share/pauker. So you have to navigate to this directory in pauker to find them.
Plutimikation is a very young KDE application and has currently a low functionality. For testing reasons, we included this package nonetheless.
XaraLX comes without an entry in the KDE or GNOME menu. Please create your own menu entry using the tools of your window manager. The executable is called "xaralx".
The KDE-menu of the Kiosk-Education-Settings is too small. It needs to be manually enlarged. Click on the upper right corner of the KDE menu to enlarge it.