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Debian 11 "Bullseye" was released yesterday, see details in https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814. I usually wait at least a few months for the bugs to be worked out before upgrading...
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It has:
Gnome 3.38,
KDE Plasma 5.20,
LXDE 11,
LXQt 0.16,
MATE 1.24,
Xfce 4.16."
Cinnamon [< JP: added by me since not listed, and still has a 32-bit version]
This release contains over 11,294 new packages for a total count of 59,551 packages, along with a significant reduction of over 9,519 packages which were marked as "obsolete" and removed. 42,821 packages were updated and 5,434 packages remained unchanged.
"bullseye" becomes our first release to provide a Linux kernel with support for the exFAT filesystem and defaults to using it for mount exFAT filesystems. Consequently it is no longer required to use the filesystem-in-userspace implementation provided via the exfat-fuse package. Tools for creating and checking an exFAT filesystem are provided in the exfatprogs package.
Most modern printers are able to use driverless printing and scanning without the need for vendor specific (often non-free) drivers. "bullseye" brings forward a new package, ipp-usb, which uses the vendor neutral IPP-over-USB protocol supported by many modern printers. This allows a USB device to be treated as a network device. The official SANE driverless backend is provided by sane-escl in libsane1, which uses the eSCL protocol.
Systemd in "bullseye" activates its persistent journal functionality, by default, with an implicit fallback to volatile storage. This allows users that are not relying on special features to uninstall traditional logging daemons and switch over to using only the systemd journal.
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Of personal interest to me from Debian 10 to 11 you move from BackupPC 3.x to 4.x which is a major jump, and (stone-age) Icinga1 is gone. As above, printing and scanning have changed considerably, which could affect me since my multi-function printer is circa 2008, but I use Debian on the server and Mint on the workstations, so...
I've forwarded the entire related message below because various school and education questions have come up on this list before, and the story below sounds really compelling and interesting.
Later,
JP
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Subject: Debian Edu / Skolelinux Bullseye — a complete Linux solution for your school
Resent-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 07:24:48 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-announce@lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:24:22 +0200
From: Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@debian.org>
To: debian-announce@lists.debian.org
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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Debian Edu / Skolelinux Bullseye — a complete
Linux solution for your school press@debian.org
August 15th, 2021 https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210815
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Are you the administrator for a computer lab or an entire school
network? Would you like to install servers, workstations, and laptops to
work together? Do you want the stability of Debian with network services
already preconfigured? Do you wish to have a web-based tool to manage
systems and several hundred or even more user accounts? Have you asked
yourself if and how older computers could be used?
Then Debian Edu is for you. The teachers themselves or their technical
support can roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study
environment within a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of
applications pre-installed, and you can always add more packages from
Debian.
The Debian Edu developer team is happy to announce Debian Edu 11
"Bullseye", the Debian Edu / Skolelinux release based on the Debian 11
"Bullseye" release. Please consider testing it and reporting back
(<debian-edu@lists.debian.org>) to help us to improve it further.
About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
-------------------------------
Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux [1], is a Linux distribution based
on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
configured school network. Immediately after installation, a school
server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
waiting for users and machines to be added via GOsa², a comfortable web
interface. A netbooting environment is prepared, so after initial
installation of the main server from CD / DVD / BD or USB stick all
other machines can be installed via the network. Older computers (even
up to ten or so years old) can be used as LTSP thin clients or diskless
workstations, booting from the network without any installation and
configuration at all. The Debian Edu school server provides an LDAP
database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
directories, a DHCP server, a web proxy and many other services. The
desktop environment contains more than 70 educational software packages
and more are available from the Debian archive. Schools can choose
between the desktop environments Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, MATE, KDE Plasma,
Cinnamon and LXQt.
1: https://blends.debian.org/edu
New features for Debian Edu 11 "Bullseye"
-----------------------------------------
These are some items from the release notes for Debian Edu 11
"Bullseye", based on the Debian 11 "Bullseye" release. The full list
including more detailed information is part of the related Debian Edu
manual chapter [2].
* New LTSP [3] to support diskless workstations. Thin clients are still supported, now using X2Go [4] technology.
* Booting over the network is provided using iPXE instead of PXELINUX to be compliant with LTSP.
* The Debian Installer's graphical mode is used for iPXE installations.
* Samba is now configured as "standalone server" with support for SMB2/SMB3.
* DuckDuckGo is used as default search provider for both Firefox ESR and Chromium.
* New tool added to set up freeRADIUS with support for both EAP-TTLS/PAP and PEAP-MSCHAPV2 methods.
* Improved tool available to configure a new system with "Minimal" profile as dedicated gateway.
2: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Features#New_features_in_Debian_Edu_Bullseye
3: https://ltsp.org
4: https://wiki.x2go.org
Download options, installation steps and manual
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Official Debian Network-Installer CD images for both 64-bit and 32-bit
PCs are available. The 32-bit image will only be needed in rare cases
(for PCs older than around 15 years). The images can be downloaded at
the following locations:
* http://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd
* http://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd
Alternatively official Debian BD images (more than 5 GB in size) are
also available. It is possible to set up a whole Debian Edu network
without an Internet connection (including all desktop environments and
localization for all languages supported by Debian). These images can be
downloaded at the following locations:
* http://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-bd
* http://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-bd
The images can be verified using the signed checksums provided in the
download directory.
Once you've downloaded an image, you can check that its checksum matches
that expected from the checksum file; and that the checksum file has not
been tampered with. For more information about how to do these steps,
read the verification guide [5].
5: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
Debian Edu 11 "Bullseye" is entirely based on Debian 11 "Bullseye" ; so
the sources for all packages are available from the Debian archive.
Please note the Debian Edu Bullseye status page [6]. for always up-to-
date information about Debian Edu 11 "Bullseye" including instructions
how to use rsync for downloading the ISO images.
6: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Bullseye
When upgrading from Debian Edu 10 "Buster" please read the related
Debian Edu manual chapter [7].
7: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Upgrades
For installation notes please read the related Debian Edu manual
chapter [8].
8: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Installation#Installing_Debian_Edu
After installation you need to take these first steps [9].
9: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/GettingStarted
Please see the Debian Edu wiki pages [10] for the latest English version
of the Debian Edu "Bullseye" manual. The manual has been fully
translated to German, French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål,
Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese (Portugal). Partly
translated versions exist for Spanish, Romanian and Polish. An overview
of the latest published versions of the manual [11] is available.
10: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/
11: https://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/debian-edu-doc/
More information about Debian 11 "Bullseye" itself is provided in the
release notes and the installation manual; see https://www.debian.org/.
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volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.
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https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.
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