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. 

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"...